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“We are batting away the pesky wasps that have come to take a dip in the jams-- apricot, fig, mulberry, rose-- that sit shimmering in pressed-glass dishes in the sunshine. We sit in the shade of a mulberry tree overlooking a field of damask rose bushes and sumac trees.”

Preserves Trees Lebanon Rose Bush Jams Damask

Book:A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

Source: A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy… A Memoir of Sorts

“When we speak of the Rose Bush, we speak of a Totality, a Unity of Being.”

Sufism Totality Tasawuf Rose Bush Unity Of Being

Book:The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“A long-term romance is like a rose bush. In any given season, a blossom might fall off. But if the plant is well nourished, then the season will come around again, and new blossoms appear.”

Ifs Wells Long Might Romance Fall Given Term Seasons Rose Plant Long Term Rose Bush

Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.”

Firsts Hours Dollars Rose Steady Nurse Nursery Paychecks Rose Bush

Author:John Grisham

“Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.”

Perspective Grateful Rose Complaining Be Grateful Thorns Never Give Up On Something Rose Bush

Author:LeCrae

“...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.”

Social Felt Memories Poor Compassion Vision Dresses Rose Workers Caught Remembered Branches Fence Curves Social Work Thorns Symbolism Social Worker Clutch Ragged Rose Bush Detaining

Author:Albion Fellows Bacon

“I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.”

People Thinking Ideas Grows Rose Rose Bush

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.”

Giving Trying Sides Seeing Rose Complaining Thanks Rejoice Thorns Rose Bush

Author:Alphonse Karr

“When someone writes something hateful and threatening I respond with something like, "I want to be so much like you; I want to wear your skin." By messing with them in that way you change what they're selling. They won't share it. And it halts the conversation. Or I'll change it to "Jenny, you're like a rose bush that grew a watermelon." They come back pissed off and write, "I didn't say that!"”

Way Want Writing Share Like You Grew Conversation Skins Rose Selling Threatening Hateful Halt Pissed Off Jenny Rose Bush

Author:Jenny Lawson

“The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.”

Way Technology Effects Ego Rose Population Chickens Allowing Narcissistic Wrinkles Exploding Manure Escalating Rose Bush

Author:Tom Robbins

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.”

Thinking Mean Children Meditation Rocks Rose Ignorant Calming Rose Bush

Author:Rajneesh

“California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.”

States Fall Politics Unions Rose California Freeze Rose Bush

Author:W. C. Fields

“If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.”

Ifs Years Humans Rose Billions Gas Hydrogen Giraffe Rose Bush

Author:Brian Swimme

“Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.”

Littles Country Hands Fronts Grew Grew Up Rose Golf Clubs Drivers Hitting Soup Lawns Ivy Wedges Country Clubs Rose Bush

Author:Amy Alcott