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.
A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.
Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.