Mokihana Flower Quotes

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower. ~ Nhat Hanh

The Amen of nature is always a flower. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful. ~ Yohji Yamamoto

You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit. ~ D.H. Lawrence

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I never cast a flower away,
A gift of one who car'd for me;
A flower
a faded flower,
But it was done reluctantly. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower. ~ Stjepan Hauser

How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it? ~ RZA

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower. ~ Malachy McCourt

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field. ~ Alan Watts

When the flower blooms
The bees come uninvited. ~ Ramakrishna

Wind will bring the fragrance of Flower ... Not the Flower ~ Arafath Shanas

We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. ~ Thomas Sterner

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive. ~ Waris Dirie

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower. ~ Helen Keller

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone. ~ Allen Ginsberg

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~ Claude Monet

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come. ~ George Washington Carver

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. ~ James Russell Lowell

NEVER THINK TWICE TO SAY SORRY TO THOSE WHOM YOU HAD HURT. ~ Flower

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Behave like the flower; it blooms with its own petals without bothering to take the colour of another flower's petals. You can excel with what you have! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I blinked at Colin. He was like a walking Wiki site. ~ Amanda Flower

A flower is relatively small ... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Dove found Flower waiting outside her apartment. Flower was staring at her Doc Martins and in a very slow-motion move; she looked up at Dove.
"Jesus!" Flower's eyes were wide and her mouth stayed open.
Dove wanted to ask, "Bad Jesus or good Jesus?", but Flower had already used almost half her allotted words on Dove's predicament. She felt guilty asking for more. ~ Debra Anastasia

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. ~ Margaret Oliphant

Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. ~ John Ruskin

Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man. ~ Nabeshima Naoshige

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they're needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. ~ Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color? ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower ... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower. ~ Miyamoto Musashi

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ~ Honore De Balzac

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you. ~ Sri Chinmoy

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

To succeed you must never give up on yourself. ~ Golden Flower

When a flower blooms,
God is smiling at mankind. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. ~ Aristotle.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages. ~ William Blake

Be the type of person you want to meet. ~ Golden Flower

Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun. ~ Khalil Gibran

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism. ~ Sukarno

Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host. ~ Aeschylus

When a flower fails to bloom it robs the world of beauty. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I always held my flower in a clenched fist. ~ Eric Hoffer

The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom
Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self. ~ Alice Walker

Like a nocturnal flower there in the shadow
I shall softly open for you. ~ Delmira Agustini

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn. ~ Osho

The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. ~ Heinrich Heine

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. ~ Bette Lord

When you're humble it's like wearing a beautiful flower. It inspires others. It generates energy and power. ~ Frederick Lenz

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life. ~ Samuel Richardson

Love is the flower of life but happiness is the fragrance of that flower. ~ Debasish Mridha

So, in the tulip, we have a flower of beauty and grace of charm, refinement and distinction. It is a powerful flower and it knows it ~ Tadashi Shoji

Love is like a flower who needs sun and flower to grow, or it will die ~ Beta Metani'Marashi

One flower makes no garland. ~ George Herbert

See the flower as dying and you will see the flower sadly. Yet see the flower as part of a whole tree that is changing, and will soon bear fruit, and you see the flower's true beauty. When you understand that the blossoming and the falling away of the flower is a sign that the tree is ready to bear fruit, then you understand life. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

I say love, it is a flower, and you, its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice. ~ Gautama Buddha

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple. ~ Suzy Kassem

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. ~ James Montgomery

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords. ~ John Muir

[T]he flower is made of non-flower elements. We can describe the flower as being full of everything. There is nothing that is not present in the flower. We see sunshine, we see the rain, we see clouds, we see the earth, and we also see time and space in the flower.
A flower, like everything else, is made entirely of non-flower elements. The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest herself, The flower is full of everything except one thing: a separate self, a separate identity.
The flower cannot be by herself alone. The flower has to inter-be with the sunshine, the cloud and everything in the cosmos. If we understand being in terms of inter-being, then we are much closer to the truth. Inter-being is not being and it is not non-being. Inter-being means being empty of a separate identity, empty of a separate self, ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now."

" The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either. ~ Barbara Hambly

Let me hold your heart like a flower lest it bloom and collapse. ~ Anne Sexton

No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet ... ~ William Safire

Never loose hope, Tomorrow could be the day you have been waiting for. ~ Golden Flower

I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden. ~ Tasha Tudor

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. ~ John Milton

No man inveigh against the withered flower,
But chide rough winter that the flower hath killed. ~ William Shakespeare

Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. ~ Gautama Buddha

The Petal table is a flower that is always in bloom. ~ Richard Schultz

Let the beauty of love bloom like a flower, and then welcome everyone you meet with that flower. ~ Debasish Mridha

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it. ~ Jess Lair

Litanies of the Rose
Rose with dark eyes,
mirror of your nothingness,
rose with dark eyes,
make us believe in the mystery,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of pure gold,
oh safe deposit of the ideal,
rose the colour of pure gold,
give us the key of your womb,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence.
Rose the colour of silver,
censer of our dreams,
rose the colour of silver,
take our heart and turn it into smoke,
hypocrite flower,
flower of silence. ~ Remy De Gourmont

A flower is your cousin ... Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it ... But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower ~ Lil' Wayne

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos. ~ Nhat Hanh

With understanding, those we love will certainly flower. ~ Nhat Hanh

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. ~ Piet Mondrian

The flower that does not smile
at the branches withers. ~ Rumi

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower? ~ Allen Ginsberg

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. ~ Rumi

You yourself are the bizarre flower of some unknown dream. ~ Renee Vivien

Love is a flower you got to let it grow. ~ John Lennon

She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty. ~ Edith Wharton

The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature's course ~ Ryokan

Did you know ... that when you walk past a flower, whether it be in somebody's garden or on a vacant hillside, the flower will always smile at you. The most polite way to respond, I've been told, is to cheerfully return the smile ... ~ Ron Atchison

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away. ~ William Blake

And I think of the night-blooming cereus, a plant that looks like a leathery weed most of the year. But for one night each summer its flower opens to reveal silky white petals, which encircle yellow lacelike threads, and another whole flower like a tiny sea anemone within the outer flower. By morning, the flower has shriveled. One night of the year, as delicate and fleeting as a life in the universe. ~ Alan Lightman

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prose vs. Poetry
To a writer of prose
a flower is a flower.

To a poet a flower can be
the origami of God's eye
enfolding the cosmos;
it is the luminous
well of imagination
bursting into pattern;
it is the coalescence
of infinite possibility
into palpable reality;
it is a confetti forest
for dancing bumble bees;
it is the flirtatious blush
ofradial symmetry;
it is the heartache of love
manifest in a rose.

For a true poet
A FLOWER IS NOT A FLOWER. ~ Beryl Dov

When you like a flower, you just pluck it.
But when you love a flower, you water it daily. ~ Gautama Buddha

To be as pure and perfect as a flower, you must think and dream like a flower. ~ Debasish Mridha