A Quote by Rumi

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

Rumi

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Rumi
Poet
September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Thomas Moore

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

Jefferson Davis

You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.

Sathya Sai Baba

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

Walter Raleigh

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet be lacerated by the thorns, let your heart be stirred by human emotion, and let your soul be lifted beyond the earth.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

Gautama Buddha

It's okay to send flowers, but don't let the flowers do all the talking. Flowers have a limited vocabulary. About the best flowers can say is that you remembered. But your words tell the rest.

Jim Rohn

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

Aberjhani

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

Rajneesh

...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

Albion Fellows Bacon

It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower

Sarah Monette

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.