Cherry Blossom Quotes

• The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

  Nhat Hanh

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Flower, Japan, Shade

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• Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
  Is hung with bloom along the bough.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Spring, Lyric Poetry

  A Shropshire Lad no. 2, l. 1 (1896)

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• The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.

  Homaro Cantu

  Beautiful, Country, Years

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• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)

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• Look at the cherry blossoms!
  Their color and scent fall with them,
  Are gone forever,
  Yet mindless
  The spring comes again.

  Ikkyu

  Spring, Fall, Color

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• What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Spring, Alive, Strange

  Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”

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• Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

  Matsuo Basho

  Two, Cherries, Two Lives

  Matsuo Basho (2006). “Narrow Road to the Interior”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Spring, Tree, Doe

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• If there were no
  cherry blossoms
  in this world
  How much more tranquil
  our hearts would be in spring.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Spring, Heart, Would Be

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• I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Beautiful, Memories, Cherries

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• [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

  Rajneesh

  Glowing, Space, Silence

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• If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun!

  Motoori Norinaga

  Morning, Glowing, Sun

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• It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spring, War, Stupid

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• Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

  Ariwara no Narihira

  Heart, Would Be, World

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• The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.

  Homaro Cantu

  Flower, Sight, Tree

  "The Significance of the Cherry Blossom: From Beloved Tree to Cultural Icon" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2013.

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• From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Fall, Tree

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• On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Wine, Night, Add

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• the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

  Cathy Davidson

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.21, Duke University Press

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• I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

  Lynn Austin

  Love, Spring, Flower

  Lynn Austin (2001). “Hidden Places: A Novel”, p.210, Bethany House

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• The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Feelings, Watches, Demand

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Mar 06, 2013

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• However far I gaze Neither cherry blossoms nor Crimson leaves are in sight. Only a fisherman's hut on the shore In the autumnal evening.

  Fujiwara no Teika

  Sight, Evening, Fisherman

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• For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

  Janet Frame

  Spring, Winter, March

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• We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

  William McDonough

  Nature, Fall, Effectiveness

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• It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Justice, May, Homesick

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