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Discover my favorite bloom and blossom quotes to inspire new season’s creativity like journaling ideas, art diary topics, and spring crafts. Spring blossoms are somehow a reference to collective unconsciousness as they declare nature’s rebirth against winter’s coldness and haziness.
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They greek myth of the almond tree
According to Greek mythology, Theseus’ son Demophon arrived in Thrace after the Trojan war. There, he met the beautiful Thracian princess Phyllis and fell in love with each other. But, he was obliged to leave for Athens. He swore to return for her in a month. Phyllis waited all this time, but after a few months, she died in disappointment. The Gods’ compassion changed her into a bare almond tree, in order to show her grief. When Demophon returned and learned what happened, found the tree with the dark branches and embraced it. Immediately the almond tree burst into leaf and was covered with blossoms, declaring in this way Phyllis’ invincible love.
My favorite bloom and blossom quotes
Thus, a tree in bloom becomes a symbol of heedlessness as well as hope, like the love of Phyllis that prevailed over the laws of nature.
Bloom quotes and sayings
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
– Zen Shin
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
– Alexander Den Heijer
“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers…”
“C’est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles sont fleuries.“
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“Put all you are
– Fernando Pessoa
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”
“Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.”
– Daisaku Ikeda
“Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Quotes and sayings about blossoms and flowers
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
– Oscar Wilde
“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
– Mark Nepo, The Book of Awaning
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory of you”.
– Pablo Neruda, Love
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
– F. Max Müller
I’ve come as a spring
– Rumi
to lay beside your blossoms
To feel the glory of happiness
and spread your flowers around
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”
– Gérard de Nerval
“I said to the almond tree, ‘Sister, speak to me of God.’ And the almond tree blossomed.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco
“When an almond tree became covered with blossoms in the heart of winter, all the trees around began to jeer. “What vanity,” they screamed, “what insolence! Just think, it believes it can bring spring in this way!” The flowers of the almond blushed in shame. “Forgive me, my sisters,” said the tree. “I swear I did not want to blossom, but suddenly I felt a warm springtime breeze in my heart.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis, Saint Francis
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