"It's the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose."
"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."
"Life is like a rose garden - watch for the thorns and keep the pest dust handy"
"A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks: 'Aren't you tired of waiting?' 'Yes,' answers the rose, 'but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.'
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it."
"True friendship is like a rose, we don't realize its beauty until it fades."
"Truths and roses have thorns about them."
"The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is."
"True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses."
"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears."
"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."
"A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses."
"A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows."
"A woman is like a rose...If you take good care of her, you will see love blossom."
"If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime."
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."
"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."
"A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you."
"If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself." - Charles De Leusse
"Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."
"There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence."
"Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again."
"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?... Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared."
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
"Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose."
"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."
"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true."
"If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is."
