Sweetness Quotes - Page 12

• I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.

  Uwem Akpan

  Dream, Art, Children

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• As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The soul that has come to know God fully no longer desires anything else, nor does it attach itself to anything on the earth; and if you put before it a kingdom, it would not desire it, for the love of God gives such sweetness and joy to the soul that even the life of a king can no longer give it any sweetness.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Tree, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

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• One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words

  Aftab Alam

  Jesus, Bitterness, Jesus Words

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• The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

  George Santayana

  Long, May, Honey

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

  Euripides

  Tears, Weeping

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Fighting, Light, Years

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness.

  Barry White

  Quality, Weakness, Mines

  Song: Your Sweetness Is My Weakness

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• The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

  Marco Polo

  Wine, Flavor

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• Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.

  Edward Caswall

  Jesus, Thee, Breasts

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• I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

  Kidada Jones

  Beautiful, Sweet, Thinking

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• Self-love grows when you trust that the universe is on your side, form your desires from the heart and watch the higher Self carry them out, believe that you are enough in and of yourself, heed the tenderness and sweetness of your love for others, put your attention on positive energies in every situation, honor your own needs without having to seek outside approval, and cultivate the peace of inner silence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Heart, Self

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.216, Random House

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• In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

  Alice Walker

  Light, Cost, Fierce

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.174, New Press, The

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• Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

  King James I

  Men, Vanity, Should

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• Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness of the heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Mind

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• And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Men, Paradise On Earth

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• The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loss, Night, Tragedy

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• A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Mother, Smart, Book

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• A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Men, Hands

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.243

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• I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Home, Sweetness Of Life, Earth

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.109, Vintage

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• I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wall, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.

  Louise Wilder

  Nature, Garden, Smell

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

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• The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Sweetness Of Life, Formality

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