(491 quotes found)
“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume”
Jean de Boufflers
“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”
D.H. Lawrence
“To create a little flower is the labour of ages.”
William Blake
“Let one thousand flowers bloom”
Mao Tse-Tung
“Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl).”
Chanakya
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.”
Bhagavad Gita
“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November!”
Thomas Hood
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
Abraham Lincoln
