A Stroll in the Garden

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” ― Shannon L. Alder

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.” ― Anne Bronte

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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

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“He picked up one of Lorna’s roses and set it in my lap. “Here.” I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. “See what I mean? Thorns don’t stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them…. Cause the rose is worth it… Think what you’d miss.”
― Charles Martin, Chasing Fireflies

“Flowery tongues have thorny throats.” ― Kirush Muser

“We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns one-by-one and they do the same for us. Love is also when we pluck the thorns out of our own flesh, one-by-one. But today, the world teaches us that we shouldn’t even see those thorns, that we should only see the petals. As a result, we don’t know how to love ourselves and we don’t know how to love others. Stay with the darkness, and bring that darkness into the light. It’s there, look at it.” ― C. JoyBell C.

“The more the thorns on the way are sharply pointed, the more intensely the fires burn for quenching the sweet cool destination.”
― Spriha Kant

“If you don’t feel the pointed things in life, you’ll soon take the soft ones for granted.”
― John Everson, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions

“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.” ― Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Some thorns have roses.” ― Hope Bolinger

“Holding grudges is like growing a garden of thorns in your heart .” ― Thandazo Perfect Khumalo

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” ― H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

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“Charisma is the fragrance of soul.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The light of compassion opens the petals of the heart. When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.” ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.” ― Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard

“When we lift our hands in praise and worship, we break spiritual jars of perfume over Jesus. The fragrance of our praise fills the whole earth and touches the heart of God.” ― Dennis Ignatius

“Smell is an invitation to a journey: it allows us to leave the ordinary course of things and go on a trip, to absent ourselves.” ― Mandy Aftel, Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent

“Maybe you’re not perfect, but you certainly are not unworthy. You are beautiful. A flower with a petal still unfurled does not lack in fragrance.” ― Mona Soorma, Soul Food And Instant Karma

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

A Stroll in the Garden

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

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“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We don’t have to be defined by the things we did or didn’t do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it’s a regret, maybe it’s not. It’s merely something that happened. Get over it.” ― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.” ― Libba Bray

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” ― Katherine Mansfield

“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” ― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” ― Lawrence J. Peter

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A Stroll in the Garden

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” ― Mother Teresa

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“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” ― Charlotte Bronte

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” ― Brian Tracy

“Happiness comes from helping others, by being with others, and by sharing, even if it’s only a smile.” ― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” ― W. Clement Stone

“If you have a candle, the light won’t glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.” ― Steven Tyler

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A Stroll in the Garden

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Bronte

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

“Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you don’t feel the pointed things in life, you’ll soon take the soft ones for granted.”
― John Everson, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions

“Dear Superwoman,
Remember that a rose does not stop looking beautiful, because of the thorns around it. So, never allow weaknesses to stop you from admiring your own strengths.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“Love sees the thorns but cherishes the rose anyway.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Tears are not thorns.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Holding grudges is like growing a garden of thorns in your heart .”
― Thandazo Perfect Khumalo

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!