"The thing about happiness is that it doesn`t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I`m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I`ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me."
- Lana TurnerThe artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
- Auguste RodinLove is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
- Alan SandalsBreak open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun