Take time to smell the roses.

Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardensA rose today. But you will ask in vainTomorrow what it is; and yesterdayIt was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains.-

Christina Rosetti



What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.-

Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet




They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.-

Ernest Dowson, 1867 - 1900




There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the budwas more painful than the risk it took to blossom.-

Anais Nin