Thorns Quotes
Thorns Quote of the day
Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.
