Kait Hanson
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'One day you will look back and realize that all along you were blooming.' — Morgan Harper Nichols
Some might argue that flowers are the most beautiful objects in the world, so it makes sense there are plenty of inspiring flower quotes.
There is no shortage of sayings and quotes about flowers to consider. Famous authors, artists, singers, and stories have all shared inspirational thoughts and praises for the beautiful blooms that add color to our lives. Whether you are looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your own blooms or celebrating growth in your life (however that may look!), let this collection of flower quotes be your guide.
Related: 8 Best Flowers For A Cutting Garden In The South
Short Flower Quotes
“The earth laughs in flowers.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ―Victor Hugo
“Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ― Edwin Curran
"Perfumes are the feelings of flowers." ― Heinrich Heine
"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature." ― Gerard de Nerval
"Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks." ― G.K. Chesterton
"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” ― Sigmund Freud
“I must have flowers, always, and always.” ―Claude Monet
“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” — Stephanie Skeem
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”―Oscar Wilde
“Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — Suyasha Subedi
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.”―Robert A. Heinlein
"Every flower must grow through dirt." ― Laurie Jean Sennott
“A weed is but an unloved flower.”―Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends." ― Kakuzō Okakura
"Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun." ― Ellen Everett
“Where flowers bloom so doeshope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
“Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― Ken Petti
Inspirational Flower Quotes
“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”―Iris Murdoch
“Flowers…are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”―Alexander Den Heijer
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.”―Luther Burbank
“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”―Paul A.M. Dirac
“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”―May Sarton
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” — Dorothea Dix
“We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen
“Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ― Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”—John Harrigan
“After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” —ChristianDior
“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” ―Miranda Kerr
"Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots." ― Shannon Mullen
"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." — Koshin Ogui
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." — Khalil Gibran
"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears." — Isaac Hayes
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." — Henry Ward Beecher
“One day you will look back and realize that all along you were blooming.” — Morgan Harper Nichols
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." — Helen Keller
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Garden Quotes
“To plant a garden is to dream of tomorrow.”— Audrey Hepburn
"The garden year has no beginning and no end." ― Elizabeth Lawrence
“If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi
“When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.”―Sanober Khan
“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”―Herbert Rappaport
“Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — Steve Maraboli
“In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.” — Truman Capote
“The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” — Carole Radziwill
“Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love.” — Anthony T. Hincks
“She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from hersmilethe sun still shined.” — Erin Hanson
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul." — Alfred Austin
"The best tool in the garden is the knowledge of a gardener." — Unknown
Flower Quotes From Pop Culture
“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”―Okakura Kakuzo,The Book of Tea
“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”―Clare Ansberry,The Women Of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”―Victor Hugo,Les Misérables
“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” — Leigh Bardugo,The Language of Thorns
"You can learn a lot of things from the flowers." — Alice in Wonderland
“I need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin’; You know that I have from the start. So build me up (build me up) buttercup, don’t break my heart." — The Foundations, "Build Me Up Buttercup"
“The flower that fades is not looked upon.” — Edward Counsel,Maxims
“You’re frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds.”―Steve Maraboli,Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.”―Steve Maraboli,Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with abutterflyand that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” — Gemma Malley,The Declaration
“If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.”―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,The Little Prince
“One person's weed is another person's wildflower.”―Susan Wittig Albert,An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." — Mulan
“Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snows. Lies the seed that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes the rose." — Bette Midler, The Rose
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett,The Secret Garden
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow." — John Lennon
"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere." — Sheryl Crow
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