Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.
This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
Love is like a beautiful flower which i may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of god in flowers or music.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.