#flowers

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck off.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#flowers #fuck-off #love #roses #love

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet. ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#flowers #nature #nature

Her dad died unexpectedly, so I hid the flowers, because flowers are reminders of spring and life, and also of headstones and death. Also, I hid the flowers because they were for another woman. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#flowers #funny #life #woman #death

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#flowers #garden #grow #i #like

If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!' ↗

— Delta Burke

#flowers #i #rose #say #says

At my age flowers scare me. ↗

— George Burns

#flowers #me #scare

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ↗

— Chanakya

#flowers #fragrance #goodness #only #person

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#death #destruction #flowers #hear #i