Flowers teach us to lean toward light and keep blooming. As Kahlil Gibran put it, “Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”💫

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have the things about us. ~ Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anaïs Nin

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Earth laughs in flowers. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation — the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence. ~ Aldous Huxley

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason there’s a reason. ~ Molly McGee

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

Little flower, but if I could understand what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And ’tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. ~ William Wordsworth

Buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, hold their chalices of gold to catch the sunshine and the dew. ~ Julia Caroline Dorr