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Quotes About Sweetness

Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,I never was so happy since the hour I was born.
~ Anonymous
In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.
~ Anonymous
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
~ Anonymous
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
~ Anonymous
What are little girls made of?Sugar and spice, and everything nice;That's what little girls are made of.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.
~ Anthony de Mello
I'm thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.
~ Anthony Doerr
I am very fond of chocolates.
~ Riya Sen
It was mostly sweet, he whispered, and you were the sweetest of all.
~ Frank Herbert
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
~ Richard Rolle
I love 'A Mighty Wind.' Even though it's not a funny movie, I think that's kind of beautiful and sweet.
~ Matt Walsh
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
~ Rumi
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.
~ Jemima Kirke
The one thing I still love is mint choc chip ice cream - the really fluorescent kind.
~ Tana Ramsay
Fourier's scheme of changing, by means of phalansteries, the water of all the seas into tasty lemonade was surely a phantastic idea. But Bernstein, proposing to change the sea of capitalist bitterness into a sea of socialist sweetness, by progressively pouring into it bottles of social reformist lemonade, presents an idea that is merely more insipid but no less phantastic.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Fortunate is the person who can succeed in extracting honey from such a flower as this life, whose root and every petal is bitterness.
~ Lynn Cullen
It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.
~ Lytton Strachey
Digam o que quiserem dizer os hipocondríacos: a vida é uma coisa doce.
~ Machado de Assis
Pois, francamente, só agora entendia a comoção que me davam essas e outras confidências. A emoção era doce e nova, mas a causa dela fugia-me, sem que eu a buscasse nem suspeitasse.
~ Machado de Assis
Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter.
~ Joshua Wisenbaker
there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains.
~ Amitav Ghosh
And when she played the clarinet it was as though the music came not from the instrument but straight out of her body, only passing through the clarinet to pick up some sweetness and sadness, and taking you to a real, silent place where there is no enemy, no struggle, and where everything is free from shame and treachery and clear of thoughts of betrayal.
~ Amos Oz
Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.
~ Andrew Carnegie