Roses and Thistles

"Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow."

Thistles grow when we allow them to.
Negativities persist if we don't push them out.

Roses bloom when we care for them.
Good things come if we let them in.

Roses and thistles.
Which ones are in?
Which ones are out?

The choice is ours.


Ref. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden