51 Lotus Flower Quotes for Peace, Growth and New Beginnings

The lotus flower, a powerful symbol in Egyptology, Hinduism and Buddhism, represents spiritual awakening, purity, rebirth, creation, potential and eternity.

The lotus’s resilience and ability to bloom amidst adversity serves as an inspiring metaphor for personal growth.

Despite the harsh and muddy conditions it endures, the lotus blooms each morning, untainted, towards the sun, only to sink below the water at night and resurface again the following day.

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This cycle symbolizes spiritual enlightenment and rebirth and the inherent potential within each of us to rise above adversity.

Just like the lotus, we can grow through challenging times and continually rise to shine anew, since our inner strength remains unscathed by external hardships.

A collection of 51 quotes revolving around the lotus flower’s symbolic value serves as reminders of our capacity for resilience, spiritual growth and purity.

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Rooted in Buddhism, Hinduism and Egyptology, these quotes emphasize that each person is capable of achieving spiritual enlightenment, regardless of their circumstances.

Amidst life’s trials and tribulations, these lotus flower quotes inspire us to maintain our purity and strength, allowing our own beauty and potential to flourish.


Top 10 Lotus Flower Quotes

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Learn to live like a lotus flower, untouched by the filthy water it lives in. ~ Unknown.

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When the mind is silent like a lake the lotus blossoms. ~ Amit Ray.

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The lotus flower reminds us to bloom wherever we are planted. ~ Unknown.

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When the mind is silent like a lake, the lotus blossoms. ~ Amit Ray.

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Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. ~ Buddha.

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Yoga is the space where lotus flowers blossoms. ~ Unknown.

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Out of suffering, a lotus flower of happiness can open. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh.

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One must be a lotus to emerge from murky waters clean. ~ Will Advise.

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Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head. ~ Amit Ray.

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May we exist like a lotus – at home in the muddy water. Thus, we bow to life as it is. ~ Zen.

Beautiful Lotus Flower Quotes

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In deep meditation, individual consciousness merged with the cosmic consciousness. In the absence of doer, the lotus blossoms. ~ Amit Ray.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. ~ Suzy Kassem.

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Live life in its totality. And living in the world, don’t be afraid of it. Live in the world like a lotus flower in water – it lives in water, but the water touches it not. ~ Osho Rajneesh.

Fate is but a dying wish of a world that is beyond control. Like a single lotus flower, the future blossoms; upon its petals, two people shall be free. ~ Youka Nitta.

One day, the lotus spoke again. “You remember me? The flower that grows through the mud? ~ Dawn Casey-Rowe.

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From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy. ~ Carolyn Marsden.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh.

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Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism. ~ Amit Kalantri.

The lotus flower is a reminder of the beauty that comes from change, the magic that a new beginning brings, and the seed of potential that’s buried in the most unlikely places. ~ Jennifer Williamson.

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Out of the mud of your fears, struggles, pain and confusion, the lotus flower of your inner heart will spontaneously grow. ~ Anon I Mus.

It’s like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them in the mud. Without mud, you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh.

The lotus flower is troubled at the sun’s resplendent light; with sunken head and sadly she dreamily waits for the night. ~ Heinrich Heine.

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No mud, no lotus. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh.

As the lotus rises on its stalk, unsoiled by the mud and water, so the wise one speaks of peace and is unstained by the opinions of the world. ~ Buddha.

Lovely Lotus Flower Quotes

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A flower can’t grow without rain. Too much rain and it drowns. And yet, the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Even when its roots are in the dirtiest waters, the lotus produces the most beautiful flower. ~ Unknown.

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Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air, and the light. ~ Amit Ray.

On the path of self-realization, there is no one big awakening, but many along the way of varying degrees – some small, some big; and each one of them is like the lotus flower, which grows out of muddy waters. ~ Ora Nadrich.

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self. ~ Debbie Ford.

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Every day, let our words blossom lotus in someone’s heart. ~ Amit Ray.

Just as the pure white lotus flower blooms unsoiled in muddy water, our lives, which are supremely noble, can continue to shine even amid life’s harshest realities. ~ Daisaku Ikeda.

The sacred lotus not only creates a relaxing sensation of euphoria, and increases vibrations of the heart, but also triggers genetic memory – and good memory with an awakened heart ushers wisdom. ~ Suzy Kassem.

Best Lotus Flower Quotes

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Lotus flowers lead harrowing journeys. Their seeds sprout in murky swamp water, thick with dirt and debris and snarls of roots. ~ Sarah Jio.

Every struggle is like mud – there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout. ~ Amit Ray.

Like the lotus flower, business blooms in the mud, and in the dark of night. The lotus is an amazing creation of God, because for all of its beauty, it is the sum total of work performed in a mess. ~ Robin Caldwell.

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself – to who you are, here and now, and when you get there. You will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. ~ Masaru Emoto.

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The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud. ~ Buddhist Proverb.

Remain in the world, act in the world, do whatever is needful, and yet remain transcendental, aloof, detached, a lotus flower in the pond. ~ Osho.

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be? ~ Susumu Katsumata.

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There are still some terrible clichés in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas. ~ Hari Kunzru.

Famous Lotus Flower Quotes

May I live like the lotus at ease in the muddy water. ~ Unknown.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world. ~ Morihei Ueshiba.

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Be pure like lotus flower. ~ Polah Fono.

From life to life, never finding peace. If you are filled with desire, your sorrows swell like the grass after the rain. But if you subdue desire, your sorrows shall fall from you like drops of water from a lotus flower. ~ Gautama Buddha

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The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing. ~ Nita Ambani.

Just like the lotus, we too have the ability to rise from the mud, bloom out of the darkness, and radiate into the world. ~ Unknown.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection, the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive truth. ~ Yukio Mishima.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world. ~ Mahatma Buddha.


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