Flower Quotes

• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Garden

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• Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

  Luther Burbank

  Nature, Sunshine, Garden

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• There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

  Henri Matisse

  Positive, Beautiful, Art

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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• Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Compassion, Hands, Giving

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• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Garden, Hands

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

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• Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Kindness, Heart

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• A flower blossoms for its own joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Joy, Flower Blossom

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Pleasure

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions

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• Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

  Virginia Woolf

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• When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Watches, Way

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• Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Success, Passion, Perfect

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

  Zenkei Shibayama

  Thinking, Doe, Next

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• You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Beautiful, Life Changing, Live Life

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• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Nature, Faces, Sun

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• Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Sweet, Stars, Cat

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• ... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Religious, Animal, Blessing

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• I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

  Brian Andreas

  Dark, Garden, One Day

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• Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Garden, Hieroglyphics

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Flowers feed the soul.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Soul

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• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Nature, Philosophical, Butterfly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Stars, Writing

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• The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Peace, Blow

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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