Petal attraction

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.  

~ Claude Monet

  

The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.  

~Robert Leighton

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

A beautiful flower begins its life in the dirt.
~ Author Unknown

     In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
                                                           ~Albert Schweitzer   

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
~ Persian proverb 

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
~ French proverb

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. 

~ Chinese proverb 

Where flowers bloom, so does hope. 

~ Ladybird Johnson