Beautiful By Nature

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Jules Renard

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

Pablo Neruda

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Marion C. Garretty

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Jon Bon Jovi

Spring is sooner recognised by plants than by men.

Chinese Proverb

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Albert Camus

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Walt Streightiff

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.

Zhuangzi

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Thomas de Quincey

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Saint Francis de Sales

Hoping for a morning with lavender scent, a soft day and a warm sunset...

A fine and subtle spirit dwells
In every little flower,
Each one its own sweet feeling breathes
With more or less of power.
There is a silent eloquence
In every wild bluebell
That fills my softened heart with bliss
That words could never tell. Anne Bronte - The Bluebell