All GAUTAMA BUDDHA Quotes about “Flowers”

“When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.”
“Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.”
“As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world”
“Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.”
“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”
“As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.”
“Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.”
“Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.”
“As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.”
“To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.”
“Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.”
“Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.”
“Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.”
“As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.”
“Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established”
“Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.”
“Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.”
“From a withered tree, a flower blooms”

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