“The flower and fruit of love are mine
The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole”

“The greed for fruit misses the flower.”

“That is it. Did you notice those pumpkins and eggplants? They are big, aren’t they? The plants bear fruit because the flowers bloom. Not a single plant bears fruit without its flower. Now ponder deeply. The world says woman is unclean, but there is nothing unclean about woman. Man and woman are equally children of God and there is no discrimination. Woman has a duty, a duty to bear children. Her monthly period is the flower. Without the flower there is no fruit. Understand this well. Take the pumpkin; if its big flower is gone, that is the end of it. In many things, there are flowers that bear no fruit. But to bear fruit without any flower is impossible. Ponder deeply. There is nothing unclean about it.”

“I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.”

“The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.”

“For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.”

“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.”

“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”