Aside from painting and gardening, I’m good for nothing.
Flowers Quotes
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
Most pleasures, like flowers, when gathered, die.
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
The best and sweetest flowers of Paradise God gives to his people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven, a key to let us in to Paradise.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
