Blooming Wisdom: A Beautiful Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Flowers

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

- Robert Leighton

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

- Shannon Mullen

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Flowers grow out of dark moments."

- Corita Kent

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

- Luther Burbank

"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

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

- Buddha

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

- Carole Radziwill

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Victor Hugo

"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

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

- Michele Farabee

"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

"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

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

- Henri Matisse

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Luther Burbank

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Luther Burbank

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. ... It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Claude Monet

"Shall I tell you the secret of true love? ... Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart."

- Leigh Bardugo

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

- John Lennon

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

- John Lennon

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

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

- Fa Zhou

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

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"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 Müller

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

- Luther Burbank

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Indian Proverb

"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

"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

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

- Bryant McGill

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

- Koshin Ogui

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

- Stephen Richards

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"Every flower blooms in its own time."

- Ken Petti

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

- E.V

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard de Nerval

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

- Okakura Kakuzo

"Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun."

- Ellen Everett

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

- Iris Murdoch

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Alexander Den Heijer

"Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers."

- May Sarton

"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

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Isaac Hayes

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Steve Maraboli

"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

"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

"You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."

- Steve Maraboli

"If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- John Harrigan

"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

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

- Sheryl Crow

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

- Dr. SunWolf

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

- Edwin Curran

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"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

"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

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

- Herbert Rappaport

"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

"Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?"

- Leigh Bardugo

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

- Paul A.M. Dirac

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."

- Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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

- Christian Dior

"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Dorothea Dix

"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 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

"The garden year has no beginning and no end."

- Elizabeth Lawrence

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

- Sanober Khan

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."

- Tennessee Williams

"Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns."

- Leigh Bardugo

"The flower that fades is not looked upon."

- Edward Counsel

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

- Claudia Adrienne Grandi

"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

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

- Susan Polis Schutz

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

- Susan Wittig Albert

"Politeness is the flower of humanity"

- Joseph Joubert

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

- Sigmund Freud

"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

"Lilies bloom when we laugh together."

- Suyasha Subedi

"Butterflies are self-propelled flowers."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

- Ecouchard Le Brun

"Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound."

- Edwin Curran

"Flowers don’t tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

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

- Susan Wittig Albert

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

- Joseph Joubert

"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."

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

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

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

"The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener."

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

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

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