Ralph Waldo Emerson |

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. ~Matsuo Basho

A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. ~William Carlos Williams

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? ~ Kahlil Gibran

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. ~John Ruskin

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

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. ~The Koran

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms. ~Ikkyu Sojun

Cheers to you and may you always hold a flower in your heart!

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” Christopher Mc Candless

“If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
St. Francis of Assisi