If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.