Flower
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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
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.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
A weed is but an unloved flower.
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
'Flower' is about the sublime.
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.
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith — all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower.