Beauty & Flowers

I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Hanna Rion

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

Cherish your visions; cherish you ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart; the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for ... if you remain true to them, your world will at last be built. James Allen

A heart in love with beauty never grows old. Turkish Proverb

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, its your world for the moment. Georgia O’Keefe

Flowers leave some of their fragrance on the hands that bestow them. Chinese Proverb

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born;as if to say to insensate man, 'Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!' Harriet Beecher Stowe

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day! Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. John Keats

Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be.
-Bliss Carman-

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

...her beauty made
The bright world dim, and everything beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley-

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love. Anonymous