Appetite Quote by Richard Baxter

"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that…

— Dante Alighieri

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through…

— Joseph Addison

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

— Haridas Chaudhuri

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

— Francois Fenelon

The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.

— Brother Lawrence

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pleasure of love is in loving, and we derive more happiness from the passion that we experience than from the passion we arouse.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to…

— Maria Montessori

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

— Anonymous

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is…

— Anonymous

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

— Matthew Arnold