Top 168 Flowering Quotes & Sayings

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.

Never allow gradually the traffic to smother with noise and fog the flowering of the spirit.

Love has to be…flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

All are nothing but flowers in a flowering universe.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an overall look as well as for its individual charms.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

The flowering of love is meditation.

Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

Everything is soul and flowering.

Meditation is the nourishment for flowering.

Linnea.... A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space - from Linnaeus who resembles it.

The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

Listen...you can hear the colors flowering in the quiet of your soul

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

When one is total, life flowers - and that flowering is spirituality. Spirituality is not an attitude, it is not a discipline. It is an outcome of a life lived totally, joyfully, delightfully; of a life of no complaint; of a life lived courageously, intensely. Then this flowering happens.

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree.

Hope is a walk through a flowering meadow. One does not require that it lead anywhere.

The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.