Petals Quotes

• Where flowers bloom so does hope.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Hope, Spring, Flower

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• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Flower, Carpe Diem

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.

  Amit Ray

  Heart, Valleys, Fragrance

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.49, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The soul has words as petals.

  Edmond Jabes

  Soul

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

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• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Heart, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2012

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• What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

  Carolyn Kizer

  Flower, Today, Marvelous

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• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Flower, Sadness, Garden

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

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• The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

  Khalil Gibran

  Soul, Lotuses, Prophet

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love, Romantic, Flower

  "The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams".

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• Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Friendship, Rose, True Beauty

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• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  Antonio Machado

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

  Amy Lowell

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it.

  Robert Muller

  Spiritual, Flower, Heart

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• You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

  Bethenny Frankel

  People, Thorns, Shows

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• Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

  Beverley Nichols

  Flower, Rose, Miracle

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• Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
  the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain.
  “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn?
  It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.”
  Whatever you lost through fate,
  be certain that it saved you from pain.

  Rumi

  Pain, Fate, Laughing

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• Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Time, Taken

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• Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful to another, to I and The Maker, they are Unique and yet, only equally as beautiful as any other. Some call that being a Dreamer. I call it, being Belov'ed.

  Rasun

  Beautiful, Flower, Artist

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• I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

  Ernest Rhys

  Rain, Flower, Lovely

  Ernest Rhys (1918). “The Leaf Burners: And Other Poems”

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• As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Flower, Fall

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Flower, Smell

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Flower, Night, Rose

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• You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

  Arthur Eddington

  Stars, Flower

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• Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

  Anne Lamott

  Rose, Ego, Thrill

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.218, Anchor

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