Sweetness Quotes
613 Sweetness quotes by 397 unique authors
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor. Everyone could smell…
— Watchman Nee
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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.
— Sri Aurobindo
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of…
— Wallace Stevens
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When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The…
— Fritjof Capra
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the…
— Andre Maurois
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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…
— Charles Perrault
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Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain.…
— Rajneesh
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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…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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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…
— Muhammad Asad
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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…
— Mary Schmich
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'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists…
— Edward Robert Harrison
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If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want…
— Ignatius Loyola
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When shall it be that we shall taste the sweetness of the Divine Will in all that happens to us, considering in everything only His…
— Jane Frances de Chantal
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I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most…
— Eliza Lynn Linton
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I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures will…
— John Woolman
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There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
— Thomas Merton
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Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of…
— Theodor Fontane
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
— George Eliot
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Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
— Hedda Hopper
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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
— Charles Churchill
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
— Charles Lamb
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Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them.
— Carl Shapiro
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The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Who Wrote These Sweetness Quotes
397 authors contributed a total of 613 Sweetness Quotes, led by these top contributors: