Roses And Thorns Quotes

2 quotes from 2 authors

Notice how thorns hide beneath a bloom; these two snippets show beauty and pain grow together. One author notes roses and thorns share the same stem, the other wry about misadventures that miss the prickly side. For a wider look at nature’s paradoxes, you might also enjoy pages on Growth, Resilience, and Light‑Shadow Balance.

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“Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is not on the plant for more than a week, but the thorns are there forever. Roses are teaching…

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“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody…

Charles Dickens

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