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Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. – George Washington Carver
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated. – Alexander Osborn
If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die. – Terpsichore Lindeman
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. – William Shakespeare
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
When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is! – Mehmet Murat ildan
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower." - Amit Ray from the book "OM Chanting and Meditation – Amit Ray
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. – Robert Herrick
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. – William Wordsworth
... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ... – D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man"
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. – Buddha
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again. – John Lennon
Be like a flower, give hope to the world! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Beauty is but a flower,Which wrinkles will devourBrightness falls from the airQueens have died young and fairDust hath closed Helen's eye.I am sick, I must dieLord have mercy on us. – Thomas Nash
Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. – Ronald Reagan
Don’t give your loved one a flower, because it too has a loved one! Let the flowers live! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Ere need be shown, some men will act, As trees may fruit without a flower; To some you speak with no result, As seeds may die, and yield no grain. – Hindu Poetess
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. – Jean Paul Richter
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. – David H. Lawrence
From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. (Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.) – Jesse Louis Jackson
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. – Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Good taste is the flower of good sense. – A. Poincelot
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. – Mary Howitt
Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. – Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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