Pure Quotes - Page 10

• A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

  John Dufresne

  Love Is, Desire, Selfless

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• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Lance Loud

  Lust, Reason, Preference

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• The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

  Monica Denise Brown

  Mom, Unconditional Love, Felt

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• The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Beautiful, Perfect, Heaven

  Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That that’s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. There’s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Motivation, Eye, Home

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• There are poems
  that are never written,
  that simply move across
  the mind
  like skywriting
  on a still day:
  slowly the first word
  drifts west,
  the last letters dissolve
  on the tongue,
  and what is left
  is the pure blue
  of insight, without cloud
  or comfort.

  Linda Pastan

  Moving, Clouds, Blue

  Linda Pastan (2009). “給要離家的女兒”, p.38, 書林出版有限公司

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

  Fred Brooks

  Media, Creating, Air

  "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• I feel like my pure and proper image is causing others to be really cautious about becoming close to me. They think I sleep as soon as it hits midnight

  Seohyun

  Sleep, Thinking, Midnight

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• For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

  Johann Arndt

  Grace, Salvation, Righteousness

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• I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

  Graeme Murphy

  White, People, Giving

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• Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.

  Miguel

  Beautiful, Succeed, Defining

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• But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.

  C.J. Sansom

  Certain, Motive, Ifs

  C. J. Sansom (2008). “Revelation”, p.259, Pan Macmillan

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• We didn’t want to disrupt the creative process. We have the chance to make the films we want because the films are not expensive.  It’s very rare to be able to do that.  It’s completely pure.

  Julie Delpy

  Creative, Want, Able

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• Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of philosophic vision that Poincaré had, and none in his superior in the gift of clear exposition.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Men, Vision, Lasts

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• Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mean, Opposites, Modesty

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• Heat lingers
  As days are still long;
  Early mornings are cool
  While autumn is still young.
  Dew on the lotus
  Scatters pure perfume;
  Wind on the bamboos
  Gives off a gentle tinkling.
  I am idle and lonely,
  Lying down all day,
  Sick and decayed;
  No one asks for me;
  Thin dusk before my gates,
  Cassia blossoms inch deep.

  Bai Juyi

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

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• There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Vegetables, Water, Adoption

  Queen Mab Notes

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Heart, Long

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho, Krishna Prem (Swami.) (1984). “The Long and the Short and the All”, Osho International Foundation

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• The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Friendship, Memories, Caverns

  Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.48

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• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Principles, Goes On

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• . . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Patience, Perseverance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2064, Manonmani Publishers

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• No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

  Ross Douthat

  Simple, Difficult Questions, Doubt

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