" You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have a rose."
Unknown
" At every step the child should be
allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked
from his roses."
Ellen Key
" Love Planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet,
Where the wheatfield blows
Love planted a rose.
Up the mill-wheel's prose
Ran a music beat.
Love planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet."
And the world turned sweet,
Where the wheatfield blows
Love planted a rose.
Up the mill-wheel's prose
Ran a music beat.
Love planted a rose,
And the world turned sweet."
Katharine Lee Bates
I love watching the roses
of whatever kind or color...
These roses appear wild and free...
I think these are English roses.
I love the smell of the rose...
I even love it when they make it into perfumes.
I always think they are so sweet.
But, they always remind us of the thorns!
Yes, they are there...
Let us just be careful not to be pricked!
As they say, rejoice the thorn has a rose!
And don't take away the thorns from the rose...
just like a child, let them experience life as it is!
Yes, life has its bits of painful experiences,
but the beauty of life is too colossal
that this obscures the pains
that we may encounter through the years!
Filipinas R.
English roses in the Paris sidewalk
near Novotel Tour d' Eiffel
