#flower

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#astronomical #become #entire #flower #foundation

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#always #awake #first #flowers #heart

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. ↗

— Helen Keller

#among #breeze #flowers #i #just

Flowers grow out of dark moments. ↗

— Corita Kent

#flowers #grow #moments #out

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves. ↗

— John Ruskin

#leaves #only #such #things

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#already #being #compared #delectable #different

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#always #color #flower #god #love

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#above #advice #always #am #beautiful

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#everything #family #fields #flowers #i

I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#born #farm #flowers #get #i