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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
– Alphonse Karr

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  3. All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they are, and that which they think they are. – Alphonse Karr
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  6. Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again. – Cora Coralina
  7. I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn. – Laura Lam
  8. Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  9. Sin is a fundamental failure to rejoice in what we should rejoice in. – Matt Chandler
  10. Joy is found in Jesus when we rejoice in Him. We can rejoice our way to joy! – George Foster
  11. Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  12. Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful? – Kamand Kojouri
  14. With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. – GI Gurdjieff
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  16. One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  17. One can talk good and shower down roses, but it’s the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. – Anthony Liccione
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  19. We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain. – Stephen Altrogge
  20. If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  22. Thorns with rose petals, beauty with imperfection, softness of insensibility, pain of love; duality of human nature – Val Uchendu
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  24. The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  25. A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. 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
  27. Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life! – Israelmore Ayivor
  29. Life is rose. Some look at the thorns … some at the flower. – Scuro Chiaro Photographer
  30. There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose. – Cate Tiernan
  31. I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  32. Life is uncertain.Today you get a rose.Tomorrow you feel the thorns.But the end result is red, always!! – Shillpi S Banerrji
  33. Velva wasn’t merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet. – Mav Skye
  34. You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns – Aries Eroles
  35. Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  36. Those who love, never complain, but those who don’t love, always complain. – Debasish Mridha
  37. Those who complain never love, those who love, never complain. – Debasish Mridha
  38. There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,’ Knight said. – Michael Finkel
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  40. … because nobody wants to see a small creature left to suffer or left by itself out in the bushes. – PJ Nel

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