Sweet Quotes

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Real, Simple, Simplicity

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Nora Ephron (2011). “When Harry Met Sally. . .”, p.97, Knopf

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• God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Fall, Caring, Able

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 04, 2015

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• Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Rose, Lovely, World

  Katharine Lee Bates (1911). “America the Beautiful: And Other Poems”

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• My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise.

  Jann Arden

  Love You, Heart, Lips And Kissing

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Song, Laughter

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

  Roy Croft

  Love, Friendship, Positive

  "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

  James Shirley

  Inspirational, Dust, Smell

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• Every sweet, humble young model is only one campaign away from becoming a fashion monster.

  Coco Rocha

  Inspirational, Fashion, Humble

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• One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna. A globalization of evangelism 'in connection' with others, and a globally 'in-formed' gospel, is capable of talking across the fence with Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Muslim - people from other so called 'new' religious traditions ('new' only to us) - without assumption of superiority and power

  Leonard Sweet

  Religious, Jesus, Buddhist

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• For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be — or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.

  Margaret Atwood

  Air, Sea, Identity

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Drawing, Long

  Jodi Picoult (2000). “Plain Truth: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspirational, Waiting

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.472, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Smell, Long

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• The more complicated the order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half soy, half lowfat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low and one NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole.

  George Carlin

  Coffee, Light, Order

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• Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Hope, Giving Up

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• What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Flower, Hypocrite

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43

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• Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  Joanne Harris

  Happiness, Heart, Simple

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.146, Penguin

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• Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

  George Edward Moore

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Dream, Fear, Blessed

  Bram Stoker (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)”, p.537, Delphi Classics

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