#blossom

Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns? ↗

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

#blossom #philosophy-of-beauty #price-of-beauty #roses #thorns

Rather than turning over a new leaf, prune your tree so that new leaves continue to blossom. ↗

— Feroz Bham

#change #leaf #life #change

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dawn #famous-quotes #gardens #inspiration #language

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#closer #come #death #more #negative

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom. ↗

— Cao Yu

#expected #fallen #flowers #like #new

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven. ↗

— Russell M. Nelson

#blossom #born #die #earth #flower

Describe plum-blossoms? Better than my verses...white Wordless Butterflies ↗

— Reikan

#haiku #plum-blossoms #beauty

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#blossom #bunch #enough #feel #front