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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

-Auguste Rodin

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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

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All of the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.

-Indian Proverb

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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

-Theodore Roethke

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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

-George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)

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We can complain, because the rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because the thorn bushes have roses.

-Abraham Lincoln

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“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”

-Og Mandino

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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change

-Hindu Prince Guatama Siddharta, founder of Buddhism

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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

-Drew Barrymore

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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

-Georgia O'Keefe

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.  ~Tennessee Williams

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.  ~Walt Whitman

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Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler's dower.
~William Allingham

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.  They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.  ~Lydia M. Child

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Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.  ~Ikkyu Sojun

I used to live in the DC area, and love the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

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The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.  ~Gertrude S. Wister

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Pansies by Tanakwho on Flickr

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.



Today, it is raining cats and dogs and cows and moose and gerbils and capybaras. I think I might see a few chipmunks, a tyrannosaurus, and a chinchilla out there, too.

I like rainy days.  I feel like there is no pressure to get things done and go out and enjoy the weather.

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I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  ~Claude Monet

Claude Monet's Waterlilies 

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