Lao Tzu Quotes
The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Quotes to Explore
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
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The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.
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It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!
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Can you look at a flower without thinking?
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There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.
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The flower of olden sanctities.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Love, when it fits inside a flower, is infinite.
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When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.
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Do not go to the garden of flowers!
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
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I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
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The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.