Rose Quotes

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Secret, Universal

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• Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Thinking

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• Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thorns, Life Is, Paradox

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.305, Profile Books

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• Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Smell, Differences, Things In Life

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• Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

  Cicely Mary Barker

  Flower, Smell, Perfect

  Cicely Mary Barker (2003). “Flower Fairies Birthday Book”, Frederick Warne Publishers

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• Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  Weed, Opportunity, Garden

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• A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

  Maya Angelou

  Sweet, Names, Smell

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.6, Bantam

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• The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

  Angelus Silesius

  Self, Vision, Doe

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• Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Memories, Blessed

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.31, Whitaker House

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, History

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• Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Heart, Fewer

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• The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's warm ray.... I know not with whom the rose was in love, But I know that I loved them all. The butterfly, rose, and the sun's bright ray, The star and the bird's sweet call.

  Heinrich Heine

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1891). “The Works of Heinrich Heine”

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• Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

  Willa Cather

  Dies

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• And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Sky, Rubies

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.330, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Thorns, I Am Thankful

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Sweet, Lovely, World

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

  George William Curtis

  Motivational, Peace, Kindness

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• In the garden of thy heart, plant naught but the rose of love.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Garden, Plant

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• Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Life, Flower, Garden

  To a young lady; attributed

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• Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

  Gertrude Stein

  Luxury, Literature

  "Sacred Emily" (1913). Frequently misquoted as "a rose is a rose is a rose." The allusion is not to a flower but to English painter Francis Rose.

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• the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Eye, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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