Blooming Inspiration: A Beautiful Collection of Inspirational Quotes with Flowers

"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

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Morgan Harper Nichols

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Every flower must grow through dirt."

- Laurie Jean Sennott

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

- Luther Burbank

"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

"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

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

- Carole Radziwill

"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

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

- Indian Proverb

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

- E.V

"Every flower blooms in its own time."

- Ken Petti

"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

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

- Shannon Mullen

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

- Claudia Adrienne Grandi

"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

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

- Robert Leighton

"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

"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

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

- Claude Monet

"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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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 flower blossoms for its own joy."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- John Lennon

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

- Pablo Neruda

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

- Max Müller

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

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

- Georgia O'Keeffe

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"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

"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

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

- Luther Burbank

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature."

- Gerard De Nerval

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

- Susan Polis Schutz

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

- Therese of Lisieux

"A weed is but an unloved flower."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"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

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

- Okakura Kakuzo

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"We're all golden sunflowers inside."

- Allen Ginsberg

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

- Marcel Proust

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"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

"Politeness is the flower of humanity"

- Joseph Joubert

"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

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

- John Harrigan

"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

"Flowers don’t tell, they show."

- Stephanie Skeem

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

- Dr. SunWolf

"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

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

- Dorothea Dix

"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

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

- Leigh Bardugo

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

- Louisa May Alcott

"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

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

- Walt Whitman

"time to stop and smell the roses."

- Walter Hagen

"Garden as though you will live forever."

- William Kent

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers."

- Heinrich Heine

"To be a flower, is profound responsibility."

- Emily Dickinson

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Susan Polis Schutz

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

- Tennessee Williams

"What a lovely thing a rose is!"

- Arthur Conan Doyle

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

- L.M. Montgomery

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

- Susan Wittig Albert

"Politeness is the flower of humanity."

- Joseph Joubert

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

- Emma Goldman

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

- Malcolm de Chazal

"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

"Sweet April showers do spring May flowers."

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

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

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

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

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