Quotes about Sweetness

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. Votes: 7

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Votes: 6

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood. Votes: 6

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. Votes: 6

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. Votes: 6

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. Votes: 6

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. Votes: 6

Sweet meat must have sour sauce. Votes: 4

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. Votes: 4

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Votes: 4

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. Votes: 4

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere. Votes: 4

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. Votes: 4

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. Votes: 4

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory. Votes: 4

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail. Votes: 4

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let 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. Votes: 4

The honey in the flower or lotus does not crave for bees; they do not plead with the bees to come. Since they have tasted the sweetness, they themselves search for the flowers and rush in. They come because of the attachment between themselves and sweetness. So, too, is the relationship between the woman who knows the limits and the respect she evokes. Votes: 4

The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light. Votes: 4

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness. Votes: 3

Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them. Votes: 3

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar. Votes: 3

Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy. Votes: 3

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness. Votes: 3

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires. Votes: 3

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts! Votes: 3

...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven. Votes: 3

No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you. Votes: 3

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are. Votes: 3

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. Votes: 3

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. Votes: 2

The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food. Votes: 2

I like fragrances that have some sweetness to them. All three I have developed have that as a common element. Votes: 2

If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that. Votes: 2

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. Votes: 2

I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart. Votes: 2

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity. Votes: 2

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. Votes: 2

Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. Votes: 2

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories. Votes: 2

I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. Votes: 2

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry. Votes: 2

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. Votes: 2

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. Votes: 0

Love mixed with fear is sweetness. Votes: 0

The comfort and sweetness of peace. Votes: 0

Is love the sweetness of flowers? Votes: 0

breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ... Votes: 0

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. Votes: 0

I bought the sweetness with this pain. Votes: 0

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence. Votes: 0

Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Votes: 0

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last. Votes: 0

where is the 'punch' in sweetness and light? Votes: 0

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor Votes: 0

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven. Votes: 0

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears. Votes: 0

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. Votes: 0

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities. Votes: 0

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. Votes: 0

The sweetness of adversity: we develop the sanity of solitude. Votes: 0

The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures. Votes: 0

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples. Votes: 0

Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs. Votes: 0

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light. Votes: 0

I'm so thankful that your mine, your sweetness is my weakness. Votes: 0

Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast. Votes: 0

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat. Votes: 0

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving. Votes: 0

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character. Votes: 0

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love. Votes: 0

Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing. Votes: 0

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. Votes: 0

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? Votes: 0

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in. Votes: 0

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. Votes: 0

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo. Votes: 0

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. Votes: 0

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. Votes: 0

Bhakti and Humility cannot be separated like sweetness cannot be separated from sweet. Votes: 0

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude. Votes: 0

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. Votes: 0

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality. Votes: 0

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. Votes: 0

My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth! Votes: 0

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Votes: 0

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything. Votes: 0

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. Votes: 0

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance. Votes: 0

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Votes: 0

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. Votes: 0

When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with. Votes: 0

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart. Votes: 0

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful. Votes: 0

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab. Votes: 0

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Votes: 0

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory. Votes: 0

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness. Votes: 0

Oh, remember this, the sweetness of religion is incomparably more than all the pleasures of sense. Votes: 0

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. Votes: 0

Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December! Votes: 0

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. Votes: 0

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. Votes: 0

He was the heat of a fire and the sweetness of the moon I'd only just met. Votes: 0

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness. Votes: 0

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit. Votes: 0

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience. Votes: 0

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. Votes: 0

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. Votes: 0

My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth? Votes: 0

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life. Votes: 0

If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat Votes: 0

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy. Votes: 0

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. Votes: 0

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth. Votes: 0

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. Votes: 0

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. Votes: 0

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water. Votes: 0

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. Votes: 0

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. Votes: 0

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself. Votes: 0

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it. Votes: 0

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction. Votes: 0

The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness. Votes: 0

A cup brimful of sweetness cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, no matter how suddenly jarred. Votes: 0

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read. Votes: 0

Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light. Votes: 0

Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter. Votes: 0

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. Votes: 0

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men. Votes: 0

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget. Votes: 0

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. Votes: 0

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it. Votes: 0

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second. Votes: 0

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year. Votes: 0

On the surface, 'Book of Mormon' is extremely irreverent, but underneath, there's a great sweetness and a very positive message. Votes: 0

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. Votes: 0

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. Votes: 0

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty. Votes: 0

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them. Votes: 0

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness Votes: 0

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. Votes: 0

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds. Votes: 0

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Votes: 0

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? Votes: 0

I did that girly little sighing thing you do when you can't handle all the sweetness anymore and bit my lip. Votes: 0

The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last. Votes: 0

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. Votes: 0

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness. Votes: 0

There is a region beyond reason. Unless you get there, you will not know the sweetness of love, nor the Divine. Votes: 0

... Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.... Votes: 0

A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation. Votes: 0

I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality. Votes: 0

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving. Votes: 0

I would not consider my spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ. Votes: 0

Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. Votes: 0

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. Votes: 0

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. Votes: 0

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety. Votes: 0

One can't measure the life with its bitterness but with it's sweetness and sweetness is what one must find in Jesus Words Votes: 0

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him. Votes: 0

There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another. Votes: 0

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses. Votes: 0

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. Votes: 0

What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness. Votes: 0

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness Votes: 0

I like vodka tonics and gin & tonics. I also like gimlets. I like things that have sweetness with a bit of a kick. Votes: 0

India is developing because of 125 crore strong Team India. We have to end the curse of casteism, communalism with the sweetness of development. Votes: 0

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity Votes: 0

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. Votes: 0

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight! Votes: 0

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect. Votes: 0

My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... Votes: 0

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness. Votes: 0

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living Votes: 0

The sweetness of a kiss is not in two lips, touching each other; it is in the feelings that bring and keep them together. Votes: 0

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. Votes: 0

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down. Votes: 0

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. Votes: 0

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise. Votes: 0

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. Votes: 0

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit. Votes: 0

The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes. Votes: 0

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. Votes: 0

I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Votes: 0

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet. Votes: 0

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad. Votes: 0

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord. Votes: 0

Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall. Votes: 0

Seth was a wonderful kisser. He gave the kind of kisses that melted into your mouth and filled you with sweetness. They were like cotton candy. Votes: 0

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed. Votes: 0

If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord. Votes: 0

With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days. Votes: 0

The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness. Votes: 0

There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness. Votes: 0

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his. Votes: 0

There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. Votes: 0

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work. Votes: 0

The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster. Votes: 0

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. Votes: 0

Christophe's smile was a marvel of edged sweetness. When he grinned like that he looked handsomer than ever, the hint of danger just about threatening to stop a girl's heart. Votes: 0

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land. Votes: 0

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. Votes: 0

The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man. Votes: 0

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep. Votes: 0

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. Votes: 0

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease. Votes: 0

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under. Votes: 0

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Votes: 0

The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment. Votes: 0

Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes. Votes: 0

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power. Votes: 0

God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit. Votes: 0

The dance grew into a colorful flower bouquet which caught and contained the glow of sun-happy summer days, the secret of star-studded nights, and the wistful sweetness of overcast and rainy hours. Votes: 0

Gardening, I told myself, is the most sociable of hobbies. The very nature of one's field of activities demands an audience. No one wants flowers to blush unseen or waste their sweetness Votes: 0

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home. Votes: 0

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure. Votes: 0

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness... Votes: 0

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit. Votes: 0

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more. Votes: 0

I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end. Votes: 0

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here. Votes: 0

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming. Votes: 0

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed. Votes: 0

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. Votes: 0

Now the best thing is to put attention to your spirit. If you start putting your attention to spirit, the sweetness of the spirit itself will make the whole thing very sweet and beautiful. Votes: 0

The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments. Votes: 0

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never never allows us to forget that we belong to it. [Lat., Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui.] Votes: 0

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories Votes: 0

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life. Votes: 0

For breakfast, I make an amazing protein shake with fruit, Greek yogurt, protein powder, flaxseed oil and honey. It's a nice way to get a healthy start and a little bit of sweetness, too. Votes: 0

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes. Votes: 0

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited. Votes: 0

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors. Votes: 0

Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness. Votes: 0

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all. Votes: 0

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today. Votes: 0

The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. Votes: 0

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations. Votes: 0

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. Votes: 0