When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.
Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.
No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.
If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.
A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.
Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.
Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.
A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!