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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
Sep 19, 2025
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Let the black flower blossom as it may!
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of let-go in meditation and suddenly you will be able to smell the fragrance that is coming from your own innermost depth. Then the flower blossoms and compassion spreads. Meditation is the flower and compassion is its fragrance.
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
When you feel expansion of your consciousness, that is the most ecstatic experience possible, because suddenly you are the whole universe. Stars are within you. The sun rises within you and sets within you. The earth moves within you. The flowers blossom within you.
A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.
Silently a flower blooms, In silence it falls away; Yet here now, at this moment, at this place, The world of the flower, the whole of the world is blooming. This is the talk of the flower, the truth of the blossom; The glory of eternal life is fully shining here.
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seed of today.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home, to flower on earth
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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