Blooming Wisdom: A Beautiful Collection of Flower Inspirational Quotes

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

- Walter Hagen

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."

- Katharine Lee Bates

"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."

- William Blake

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"I love you like the plant that does not bloom and carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers."

- Pablo Neruda

"Every flower blooms in its own time."

- Ken Petti

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

"To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

- John Lennon

"Love is like wildflowers; it's often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I must have flowers, always, and always."

- Claude Monet

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."

- Helen Keller

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

- Max Müller

"Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow."

- John Lennon

""Where flowers bloom so does hope.""

- Lady Bird Johnson

""You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.""

- Pablo Neruda

""Every flower blooms in its own time.""

- Ken Petti

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

- Fa Zhou

""A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.""

- William Shakespeare

""When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.""

- Alexander Den Heijer

""To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.""

- Audrey Hepburn

""I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.""

- Antoinette Foy

""If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.""

- Claudia Adrienne Grandi

"The tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots."

- Shannon Mullen

"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."

- John Harrigan

"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful."

- Jim Carrey

"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

- Sheryl Crow

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

""Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.""

- Steve Maraboli

"If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."

- Therese of Lisieux

"If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard De Nerval

""She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.""

- Erin Hanson

"Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love."

- Max Muller

"Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

"You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."

- Walter Hagen

"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."

- Luther Burbank

""The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.""

- Mulan

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change."

- Gautama Buddha

""Love is the flower you've got to let grow.""

- John Lennon

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful."

- Jim Carrey

"One day you will look back and realize that all along you were blooming."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Just living is not enough ... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Flowers with the sweetest odors filled all the sunny air, and not alone refreshed the sense, but stole the mind from care."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odor which doth in it live."

- William Shakespeare

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

""Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.""

- Stephen Richards

""There are always flowers for those who want to see them.""

- Henri Matisse

"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."

- Bryant McGill

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind."

- Luther Burbank

""Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.""

- John Harrigan

""Flowers grow out of dark moments.""

- Corita Kent

""To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.""

- Audrey Hepburn

""Every flower must grow through dirt.""

- Laurie Jean Sennott

""Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.""

- E.V.

""If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.""

- Matshona Dhliwayo

""All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.""

- Indian Proverb

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms."

- Koshin Ogui

""One by one she slew her fears and then planted a flower garden over their graves.""

- John Mark Green

"Take time to stop and smell the roses."

- Walter Hagen

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do."

- Helen Keller

"Flowers always make people better, happier and more hopeful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

- Luther Burbank

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

- Pablo Neruda

"She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined."

- Erin Hanson

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can't choose to adore the flower and ignore the thorns. Love means loving every part of them, especially the unlovable parts."

- Sarvesh Jain

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots."

- Shannon Mullen

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."

- E.V

"Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul."

- Luther Burbank

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too."

- Miranda Kerr

""I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.""

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love."

- Stevie Wonder

"The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity."

- Dorothea Dix

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right."

- Stephen Richards

"The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days."

- Robert Leighton

"Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden."

- Steve Maraboli

"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes."

- Clare Ansberry

""A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions—so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.""

- Terri Guillemets

""If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.""

- Isaac Hayes

""We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.""

- Gwendolyn Brooks

""A flower blossoms for its own joy.""

- Oscar Wilde

"Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them."

- Chinese Proverb

"Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns."

- Leigh Bardugo

"We're all golden sunflowers inside."

- Allen Ginsberg

"It's the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms."

- Carole Radziwill

"A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect."

- Terri Guillemets

"Flowers don’t tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden."

- Claudia Adrienne Grandi

"All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."

- Indian Proverb

""When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.""

- Sanober Khan

""I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.""

- Herbert Rappaport

""The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.""

- Carole Radziwill

""The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.""

- Alfred Austin

""In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.""

- Okakura Kakuzo

""Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.""

- Clare Ansberry

""Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.""

- Leigh Bardugo

""Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows. Lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes the rose.""

- Bette Midler

""If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.""

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

""No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.""

- Sheryl Crow

""The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.""

- Dorothea Dix

""One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.""

- Susan Wittig Albert

""Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them.""

- Munia Khan

"Every flower withers. What matters is how proudly it stood before the sun."

- Marty Rubin

"Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful."

- Michele Farabee

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too."

- Miranda Kerr

"Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without sound."

- Edwin Curran

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."

- Okakura Kakuzo

"Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed."

- Aaron Neville

""A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.""

- Victor Hugo

""In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.""

- Truman Capote

""Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love.""

- Anthony T. Hincks

""I must have flowers, always, and always.""

- Claude Monet

""You can learn a lot of things from the flowers.""

- Alice in Wonderland

"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."

- Honore de Balzac

"To be a flower, is profound responsibility."

- Emily Dickinson

"Flowers don't tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

- Joseph Joubert

"Flowers whisper 'Beauty!' to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall."

- Dr. Sunwolf

""Flowers don’t tell, they show.""

- Stephanie Skeem

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair."

- Susan Polis Schutz

""A flower can be defined by its unique beauty and an incredible allure.""

- Happiness Shuma

""Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all.""

- Avijeet Das

"One person's weed is another person's wildflower."

- Susan Wittig Albert

""Lilies bloom when we laugh together.""

- Suyasha Subedi

"Surely the flowers of a hundred spring are simply the souls of beautiful things!"

- L.M. Montgomery

""After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.""

- Christian Dior

"Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star."

- Paul A.M. Dirac

"When the flower blooms, The bees come uninvited."

- Ramakrishna

"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."

- Ecouchard Le Brun

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Politeness is the flower of humanity"

- Joseph Joubert

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."

- Walt Whitman

"Garden as though you will live forever."

- William Kent

"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Are not flowers the stars of the earth?"

- Clara Balfour

""Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.""

- Dr. SunWolf

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

- Marcel Proust

"The Flower that once has blown forever dies."

- Omar Khayyam

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

- Emma Goldman

"He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival."

- Gemma Malley

"What a lovely thing a rose is!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."

- Malcolm de Chazal

"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."

"Grow through whatever you go through."

- Unknown

"Happiness blooms from within."

- Unknown

"Live life in full bloom."

- Unknown

"Nothing in nature blooms all year — be patient with yourself."

- Unknown

"If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you."

- Unknown

"Flowers are love's truest language."

- Unknown

"She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free."

"Spring: A lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be."

"In joy and in sadness, flowers are our constant friends."

"Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world."

"Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I."