What does the wilted flower mean spiritually?

The little flower, when crushed in the palm of the hand, yields a sweeter fragrance.

And could our inner sight be opened at such times, we would behold the departing perfume, the life-sustaining principle of the decaying flower resolve itself into its original form, and ascend in a more sublimated condition to its native home in the Garden of Paradise.

Heaven is worth ten thousand earth lives?

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And this is Heaven! It is worth ten thousand lives on earth to live but one day here.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia