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Thorns Quotes
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden (1856)
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I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.
For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it’s not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It’s not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It’s no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he’d doing – that isn’t important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself ‘My flower’s up there somewhere…’ But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Tags: flowers, importance, longing,love, protection, roses, sheep, stars,thorns, uniqueness, war
Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.
Shannon L. Alder
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I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we’re born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you’re strangers. Maybe that’s what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.
Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can’t turn into petals. The trick is not letting them prick you; never let a thorn prick you!
C. JoyBell C.
Tags: life, life-and-living, life-lessons,living, people, petals, thorns, wisdom,wisdom-quotes
THE WEATHER OF LOVE
Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns
Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars (Nikolai Duology, #1)
Life is uncertain.
Today you get a rose.
Tomorrow you feel the thorns.
But the end result is red, always!!
Shillpi S Banerrji
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