Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.” — K. Martin Beckner Copy Share Image
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and… — Williston Fish Copy Share Image
“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?"… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances,… — GEORGE ELIOT Copy Share Image
There would be no call for ecological campaigning had nature not been exploited and abused. We experience the ground now bringing forth… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth, And the brook cries like a child! Not a rainbow… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese… — William Halsey Copy Share Image
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
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