Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

“Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Teaching you how to grow a garden is better than giving you a thousand roses.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Every breathe of her flowers a rose in my garden”

— Kshanasurya

The hardest part of me as fallen in love with you and softest part of me is drunkenly in love with you.

— Carl Jeffrey Arapan

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-,…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“In beautiful gardens you still find ugly weeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo