Persistence

“The rose must re-become the bud born of its parent stem, before the parasite has eaten through its heart and drunk its life-sap.”
~HP Blavatsky

Melancholy

“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.”
~ William Cullen Bryant

Windward

“O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.”

~ T.S. Eliot

Golden

“We are stardust … we are golden … and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” ~Joni Mitchell

Wholeness

“Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.”
~Stephen Levine

Prosperity

“The nature of This Flower is to bloom.”
~ Alice Walker

Blossom

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anais Nin

Source

“Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life itself exhaling that central breath! Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light”
~ Eugenio Montale

Soul Paint

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”
~Kahlil Gibran