Petal Quotes

“Then the wind came in with Bart and blew the vase of roses from the table. I stood and stared down at the crystal pieces and the petals scattered about. Why was the wind always trying to tell me something? Something I didn't want to hear!”

“When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.”

“A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.”

“Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.”

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them”

“That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.”

“Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.”

“She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!”

“Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.”