Flower Quotes - Page 2

• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Nature, Tree, Soul

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• Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

  Theodore Roethke

  Nature, Attitude, Sunshine

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Sunshine, Rays

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.535, Library of America

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• each separate flower has a magic all its own.

  Myrtle Reed

  Magic

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Blooming, Blossoming, Today

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• I paint flowers so they will not die.

  Frida Kahlo

  Artist, Paint, Dies

  "On Frida Kahlo's Birthday, Check Out Her 'Self-Portrait with Stalin'" by Nick Gillespie, reason.com. July 6, 2016.

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  I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

  Rumi

  Smile, Lips, Sufi

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Book, Reading

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.

  Marianne Williamson

  Events, Matter, Way

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 12, 2014

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• Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

  Alice Walker

  Soul

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• The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

  Mark Nepo

  Life, Positive, Success

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.165, Conari Press

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• Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Nature, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.292, Harvard University Press

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• Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Blossoming

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

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• I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

  Robert Breault

  Want

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• Life is a garden forever in flower.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Garden, Forever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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• I must have flowers, always, and always.

  Claude Monet

  Flower Garden

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• Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Perfection, Fulfillment, Poise

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Attractive Things, Blossoming

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.212, New York Review of Books

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• The heart is like a flower. Unless it is open, it cannot release its fragrance into the world.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, World, Release

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• The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

  Emily Dickinson

  Regret, Lovely, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.907, Harvard University Press

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