Only those, who've never seen a bloom in a desert will continue worshiping roses. Yes, the have thorns, so do cacti. The tenderness of buds, the softness of petals, the beauty that astonish. And besides that, the perseverance and the patience...
"The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is heart of man." (F.M. Dostoyevsky)