Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. – George Eliot
- Business is a bed of roses but need to remove thorns all the time – Talees Rizvi
- Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- 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
- Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful? – Kamand Kojouri
- With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. – GI Gurdjieff
- among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn – Idries Shah
- 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
- If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- For marriage is like life in this-”that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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- The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. – Fidel Castro
- Living with a whore–even the best whore in the world–isn’t a bed of roses. – Henry Miller
- I am a wildflower in your perfect bed of roses. – Melody Lee
- 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
- If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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- Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- He who teaches you how to tend a garden has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses bloom whether you praise them or not. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- It was easy to imagine he’d just rolled out of bed and then it was easy to imagine him in bed and I wasn’t going there. – Kathy Bryson
- It takes grace to stop working and go to bed. When in bed, more grace is needed to rise up and begin work again. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise. – Bed
- Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair. – Mitch Albom
- And… a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together. – Laini Taylor