Zitat des Tages über Dornen / Thorns:
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
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.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
I was this Catholic kid, and I never really lost that. I loved the rituals of Catholicism. The mass is a magic ritual; it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross - I mean, a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It's punk rock.
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
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.
Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, because I have more to do for this country and these people.
Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.
He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.
