“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
“May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Source: The Kite Runner
Tom Kean, Jr. (1968) Member of the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate
On Jon Corzine's Budget (April 6, 2006); "The Corzine Budget: Same Old Tax and Spend ", Tom's Blog" (April 6, 2006) http://tomkean.com/today/index.cfm?e=user.about.blog&messageID=76.
“I think the sun is a flower,
That blooms for just one hour.”
Ray Bradbury book All Summer in a Day
Source: All Summer in a Day
“One day, when spring has gone and youth has fled,
The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.”
Cao Xueqin book Dream of the Red Chamber
Source: Dream of the Red Chamber (c. 1760), Chapter 27
“When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Reginald Heber (1783–1826) English clergyman
Hymn for Seventh Sunday after Trinity; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 746.
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126