Posts tagged ‘rose’
When Is Time Really Wasted?
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Roses and Thorns
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
– Hazrat Inayat Khan, Gayan
How to Find Contentment
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
– Lao Tzu
Contentment in the December rose
Healing Light
How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God
The Making of the Wise Heart
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
– Sara Teasdale
Wisdom from Oprah
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
– Oprah Winfrey
Who avoids the rose simply because it has thorns?
