Thorns Quotes

• Your thorns are the best part of you.

  Marianne Moore

  Personality

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan

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• There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

  Cate Tiernan

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.23, Penguin

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• But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

  Anne Bronte

  Courage, Flower, Rose

  Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”

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• Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

  Hugh Miller

  Encouraging, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• 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.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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

  Isaac Hayes

  Rose, Bears, Accepting

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

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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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• Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dream, Flower, Fall

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• 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.

  Dr. Seuss

  Rose, World, May

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Rose, Life Is, Paradox

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

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• God put thorns around the
  Love's door to stop anyone
  who's not a Lover from entering.

  Rumi

  Doors, Entering, Lovers

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• Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Blood

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• The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

  Aminu Kano

  Freedom, Fire

  Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”

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• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  Thomas Moore

  Nature, Flower, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Rose, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

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• The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

  Rumi

  Essence, Rose

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• She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

  Olga Broumas

  Wise, Rose, Patient

  Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Being In Love, Being Thankful, World

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 39: Sermons 2289-2341”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Bones, Every Man

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.15, Penguin

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• We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

  Barbara Johnson

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Flower

  Barbara Johnson (2005). “Daily Splashes of Joy: 365 Gems to Sparkle Your Day”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

  Kangin

  Hurt, Rose, Looks

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• March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Sad, Moving

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• My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

  Bret Michaels

  Rose, Life Is

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