The beautiful rose has thorns too.

I know few roses that do not borne any thorns Well jokes apart, you are right. It really does not matter how good, bad, wonderful the person before you is. What matters is how good you are to them. It all depends on our vision to see things, that is what makes us different. As Shakespeare always said nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so. Happy weekend to you too

hi dpk, I agree with you actually I don't have thorns but I have horns and sometimes tails too........... happy mylotting

Great analogy! No one is perfect. No matter how hard we try, NOPE not happening. For most of my child hood and young adult years I tried to live up to others and their expectations for me. Of course we all want to make our parents,grandparents happy. It was such a struggle for me. I hated the person my parents wanted me to be. Mostly my dad. Eventually a friend of mine who is also a therapist said to me" YOu are not your dad! What are your goals? FOr the first time I realized that no matter what I did or how good it was, it wouldnt be good enough. My dad was tough. I finally stood up to him in a respectfui manner and told him I am going to try things my way for a while. I was a rose and felt that my thorns were the only thing they saw. It wasnt until I realized that in order for me to bloom to the fullest I had to take some risks. It was scary but in the end my thorns werent as bad as I thought. Your comparison is perfect because I felt like everyone just assumed because I was my dad's daughter (a rose) that I was set. No one realized that I too had obstacles and mistakes to make(thorns). Combining all this makes for a beautiful flower that stands proud. Sorry for so long but this analogy really got me going. Happy MyLotting dml

I think that is all about perpective. We can complain because roses have thorns, or we can be grateful because thorns have roses. Every person has both positive and negative traits, but sometimes we focus too much on the negative traits and forget that the person in front of us has positive traits as well. If we look for the positive traits I believe that we will be able to find them. We can't find a rose without thorns and we can't find a person without negative traits, but I believe that we can learn to appreciate both the sides of roses (and people)

all varieties of rose flowers have thorns. and if being compared to life, life like rose is beautiful but life is full of complications, struggles, problems like of thorns in that rose. so that is why we need to be careful in handling the stem of this flower because if we do not, we may get hurt or being pinned with the thorns and this one will cause us to have a wound. so like in life, we must be positive always even in hard times. if you compared thorns to the negative traits of your friends, well, for me i used your subject rose to life which is full of surprises and thorns like problems.. thanks for bringing up this discussion :)

It means having or getting or even becoming beautiful is not easy. If you want to have a beautiful rose then may your finger injures with thorns. like that Some people get beauty of their soul by suffering in the life. facing problems in the life is so difficult but when we pass them with success and faith, it will look like that beautiful roses which open leaves in the morning and fresh you with that smell... that is life,,, It is good to see God's beauty in all of those beautiful one, the one who creates those beautiful flower for us, that is my believe when God loves us that much to make those beautiful flowers for us how he should break his human heart with not helping him or her? I even see beauty of God in all of those diffiulties, passing thorns and those injured fingers, will finish when you just look at that flower and smell it.

I'm so lucky!My guy did Just that, took me As Is. Me? I try to do the same to all but... certain thorns and I'd be gone. Thankfully my guy has no thorns!

SOme people are forever negative and it is like a breath of fresh air when you find one that is postive. Roses are lovely but afew thorns aren't too bad to have the opportunity to enjoy the flower. I have seen some lavender ones too.

When i saw the title of your discussion i thought people are like that too. Then i read the conversation and saw that you were talking about people too. Ha ha we thought the same thing. yes i do agree with you that people can be like roses and have a good side and a bad side(thorn), but you have to accept every side of a person if you are going to be with them as spouse or friend. Nobody is perfect not you or me.

Hiya dpk, Along my way I have come across many "roses with thorns". A few took me by surprise a little as they were devious in character very deceiving indeed. I liked better the others with thorns because I already knew which way they were going and what they could be like the worst ones are the ones who hide their thorns and hurt you where they can hurt you the most. Its true that there are no roses without thorns but the ones that hide their thorns are by far the worst they can do much more damage. Those are the ones to keep your guard against.xxx

I think that the rose has the beauty to endure through the ages. It is timeless and classic ans adoring. Who can resist the gift of a single rose or a bright bouquet in any color. The only drawback of the rose is indeed the thorn. It doesn't matter what color your rose may be or how simple or wondrous your rose is. There is no way to get away from the tricky thorns that they have.

All roses have thorns but we dont care about the thorns, we appreciate and like it for its beauty and aroma..we accepted it as a symbol of love though it has thorns.. But unfortunately very few of us have same approach when it comes to deal with people, and its not our fault its human nature, psychological researches have shown by doing so we feel more confident and secure, we do so so that we can hide our negative traits and weaknesses. We satisfy ourselves by counting the negative traits and complaining of other people.. its in our brain by default but not good for us and we should definitely try to adopt an opposite approach..

It is agreed, no one is perfect. Everything has its dark side. But it is this dark edges that give emphasis and beauty to what one is. People would be boring without their flaws, we would be boring, everything would be okay and stable but it won't be as happy and exciting.

Yeah, roses are always beautiful but how beautiful is a rose, is also how sharp is the thorns on its trunks and twigs. So if we give flowers to a special someone we usually used roses to emphasized how important she is to us, as evidenced by the thorns we will surpassed in picking up a beautiful rose.

Hi, Very true, every one has two side of coin, bad and good. when you start loving a person because of the good things. True love or liking is tested on the bad things. once the bad side is reveled the person can decide to leave or stay, the one who stays back and except the person with all the bad things, that is true love. happy mylotting

Hi Dpk it is good for you that yu try to look something and someone in the both side when I get mad in to someone, his/ her positive side usually just block up with his/her negative need time to cool my mind and see their other side

You are right.. as an old saying: No one is perfect... so never expect anything can be as good as it looks. I always believe that there's a definitely 5% of badness or goodness in every person that is hidden behind their appearances and behaviours...

Rose has its beauty,but if it is to be protected from harm,it needs thorns,same way man is created to love each other with awareness of each others strength and weakness.Then only we can share love and move forward and thus turn thorns into buds.

Well don't judge somebody like that. No one is perfect. Not even you. Every person has good and bad traits and that is life. We all have to accept both sides of the person we love.

I agree. Nobody is perfect here on earth. All have weaknesses. God is the only One who is perfect. Though humans have weaknesses, they have strengths too. Let us not look on the negative traits of a person but always see what's the good side of a person. Good Day!