Sweetness Quotes

• Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Positive Thinking, Anxiety, Bitterness

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• You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Inspirational Love, Inner Peace, Feels

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• Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, May, Sufi Mystic

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• Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Good Night, Positive Thinking, Anxiety

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• The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Honey, Bees

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• Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Life, Tears

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2016

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• Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• The comfort and sweetness of peace.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Comfort

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.134, Revell

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• Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmosphere, May, Aroma

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

  Audre Lorde

  Long, People, Want

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.71, Courier Dover Publications

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• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Perfection, Pursuit

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Bees And Honey

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Love, Sweet, Heart

  Helen Steiner Rice (2007). “A Collection of Love Gifts”, p.3, Barbour Publishing

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• The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lying, Heart, Sweetness Of Life

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Kindness, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.47, New World Library

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• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I bought the sweetness with this pain.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Pain

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• Sweetness flows from your appearance and your beauty makes me fall more in love with you. Anytime I feel low, I think about the good times you have given me and everything seems good again.

  Billy Joel

  Girlfriend, Fall, Love You

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• As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fighting, Light, Creating

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

  Catherine Ingram

  Teacher, Laughing, People

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.165, Penguin

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

  Aldo Gucci

  Inspiring, Memories, Business

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• It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Graduation, Philosophy

  'Essays' (1841) 'Self-Reliance'

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• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Best Friend, True Friend, World

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