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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.
And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close.
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.
Hillary Clinton attacked those same women [ Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky] and attacked them viciously.
In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .
I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep # trust .
It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.
The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads.
The Universe is the creation of the mind. Universe exists inside the mind as the flower exists inside the seed.
Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.
I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
No matter what is happening now, events will ultimately bend toward love the way a flower bends toward sunlight.
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.