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• Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Soul, Lotuses

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

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• Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Flower, Water, Doe

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• Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

  Amy Lowell

  Dream, Flower, Heart

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

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• You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

  Sai Baba

  Beauty, Sky, Water

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Flower

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

  Ashley Greene

  Fun, Pretending, Casual

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.

  Robert Browning

  Romantic, Believe, Flower

  'In a Gondola' (1842) l. 49

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• The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child.

  Auguste Rodin

  Children, Flower, Relief

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• As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Flower, Heart, Voice

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.

  Daniel Abraham

  Spring, Lying, Flower

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• I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Flower

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Dream, Grief

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
  Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)
  And go along with you ere you lose sight
  Of what you came for and become like me,
  
  Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.
  How love burns through the Putting in the Seed
  On through the watching for that early birth
  When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,
  
  The sturdy seedling with arched body comes
  Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  Robert Frost

  Weed, Spring, Passion

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Water, Rose, Ponds

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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• If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.

  Lucy Larcom

  Sunshine, Wind, Apples

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way.

  Dan Buettner

  Morning, Flower, Thinking

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• As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

  Dante Alighieri

  Night, Light, Rose

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.34, Penguin

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• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  Khalil Gibran, “Self-Knowledge XVII”

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• Song like a rose should be;
  Each rhyme a petal sweet;
  For fragrance, melody,
  That when her lips repeat
  The words, her heart may know
  What secret makes them so.
  Love, only Love.

  Frank Dempster Sherman

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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• To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

  Amy Bloom

  Fall, Knowing, Forever

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• The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that
  comes, the petal falls.

  Kabir

  Fall, Apples, Fruit

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  Don Marquis

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

  Rumi

  Morning, Wind, Rose

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• You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Birthday, Flower, Rose

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• Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops in the early morning sun, you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake, you will have the freshness of the stars in the night. Once guilt disappears you will have a totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant. You will have a dance to your feet and your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Morning, Stars

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