Even when you tear its petals ...

Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh. Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh. Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.
 Rumi

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