Blooming Inspiration: A Beautiful Collection of Inspirational Quotes with Flowers

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

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

- Luther Burbank

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

- John Lennon

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

"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

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- John Lennon

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Clare Ansberry

"A flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Helen Keller

"The earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 must have flowers, always, and always."

- Claude Monet

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Take time to smell the roses."

- Proverb

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

- Luther Burbank

"What a lovely thing a rose is! ... Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Katharine Lee Bates

"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

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

- Max Muller

"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

- Lady Bird Johnson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Koshin Ogui

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

- Henri Matisse

"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

"Every flower blooms in its own time."

- Ken Petti

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- E.V

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

- Max Müller

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Carole Radziwill

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

- Susan Polis Schutz

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Politeness is the flower of humanity"

- Joseph Joubert

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

- Bryant McGill

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

- Stephen Richards

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

- Ecouchard Le Brun

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

- William Shakespeare

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard De Nerval

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Therese of Lisieux

"Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us."

- Brian Jacques

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

- John Harrigan

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

- Marcel Proust

"We're all golden sunflowers inside."

- Allen Ginsberg

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

- John Harrigan

"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

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

- Okakura Kakuzo

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"time to stop and smell the roses."

- Walter Hagen

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

- Susan Polis Schutz

"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

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

- Hans Christian Andersen

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Dorothea Dix

"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

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Ramakrishna

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

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"To be a flower, is profound responsibility."

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"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

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

- Leigh Bardugo

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

- Dr. SunWolf

"Flowers don’t tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

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

- Emma Goldman

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

- Joseph Joubert

"What a lovely thing a rose is!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- Susan Wittig Albert

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

- L.M. Montgomery

"I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK ."

- Kurt Vonnegut

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

- Malcolm de Chazal

"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."

"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."

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

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