We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Nothing is all bad. There are very beautiful flowers in the desert amidst the spikes and thorns. Just don't let them take… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“ Why Roses Crave Thorns " Petals detach from a wilting bud—a single stem plucked before fully blossomed. They descend in hesitant… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
So to have peace, the best way to put your mind right is to think of good things. Think of the flowers,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Life is uncertain. Today you get a rose. Tomorrow you feel the thorns. But the end result is red, always!!” — Shillpi S Banerrji Copy Share Image
I wear this crown of thorns Upon my liar's chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stains of time… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.” — John Everson Copy Share Image
And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow.… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the… — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“Don’t rub your nose with roses; you may lose sight of the thorns” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny.… — Rahman Baba Copy Share Image
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
