Rose Quotes

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Secret, Universal

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Thinking

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• Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thorns, Life Is, Paradox

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.305, Profile Books

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• Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Smell, Differences, Things In Life

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• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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• The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

  Angelus Silesius

  Self, Vision, Doe

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• Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Heart, Fewer

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• And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sky, Rubies

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Thorns, I Am Thankful

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• Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Life, Flower, Garden

  To a young lady; attributed

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Kindness

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• In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Garden, Plant

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Lovely, World

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Eye, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

  Isaac Hayes

  Thorns, Bears, Accepting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Royalty

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• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luxury, Literature

  "Sacred Emily" (1913). Frequently misquoted as "a rose is a rose is a rose." The allusion is not to a flower but to English painter Francis Rose.

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• I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

  Rumi

  Compassion, Thorns, Heal

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

  Ben Hogan

  Inspirational, Sports, Friday

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• How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Nature, Flower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.299, University of Georgia Press

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