"Love is like a flower-you've got to let it grow."
— John Lennon

"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other"
— Chinese Proverb

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

"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 (The Declaration)

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.
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— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly."
— Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

"The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. "
— Goldie Hawn

"I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for the card.' Her smile put the sunflower to shame. She walked off."
— Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)

"You are one corrupt, perfectly white flower, yearning for its own reflection, in the calm waters"
— Die

"I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;
I am the memory of a moment of happiness;
I am the last gift of the living to the dead;
I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow."
— Gibran Kahlil Gibran

"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then?"
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Anima Poetae From The Unpublished Notebooks Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”"
— Mark Twain