Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. — William Penn Copy Share Image
But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns:… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give… — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
“A falcon. I can see that. I thought you said nothing lived here?” Sand’s face went blank. “There was nothing alive, except… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
