„A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:“Aren’t you tired of waiting?”“Yes,” answers the rose, “but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.“

— Paulo Coelho

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„we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how“
— Tupac Shakur
„We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today“
— Dale Carnegie
„One of the 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
„We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting“
— Charles Bukowski
„Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.“
— Jack Kerouac
„For that mist may break when the sun is highAnd this soul forget its sorrowAnd the rose ray of the closing dayMay promise a brighter morrow.“
— Emily Brontë
„The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.“
— Terry Pratchett