William Cowper Quotes

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers.

I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

You have to be the best of whatever you are, but successful, cool actresses come in all shapes and sizes.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Like people, trees are all individuals.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.

Every season is a season of its own.

Some people are meant to be bigger, and that's okay. Because if everybody was built the same, it would be a little boring. We enjoy the differences in each other, and I think that's what makes all of us beautiful.

There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

There are so many types of beauty that all deserve to be celebrated.

The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.

Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.