“You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.”
“Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!”
“Briers do not become flowers when there is no danger present. While the forest has flowering plants, it also has trees and thorned plants. Each is suited to exist as it does and does not wish to become something it is not.”
“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?”
“Here's to the thorn in the flower!”
“It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower”