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Quotes About Sweetness

The sun is touching every door and making wonder of the wheat. The first wine is pink in colour, is sweet with the sweetness of a child, the second wine is able-bodied, strong like the voice of a sailor, the third wine is a topaz, is a poppy and a fire in one. My house has both the sea and the earth, my woman has great eyes the colour of wild hazelnut, when night comes down, the sea puts on a dress of white and green...
~ Pablo Neruda
We should pattern our life by a triangular guide: calmness and sweetness are the two sides; the base is happiness. Every day, one should remind himself: I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity. Whether one acts quickly or slowly, in solitude or in the busy marts of men, his center should be peaceful, poised
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
One good way to check our motives when doing something for the Lord is to see how sweet and patient we can remain when it does not go the way we want it to.
~ Dallas Willard
You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.
~ Dan Chaon
"Out of all the things that I do all day, telling you that I love you is the sweetest thing I do. It is my favorite part of the day because you deserve all the love I can give."
~ Nathan Tweed
14. Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
~ Sarah Louise Delany
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.
~ James Simpson
I have no name I am but two days old.- What shall I call thee? I happy am Joy is my name,- Sweet joy befell thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy but two days old. Sweet joy I call thee: Thou dost smile. I sing the while Sweet joy befell thee. - Infant Joy
~ William Blake
A solemn state of mind is never crude or simple—it seems to contain a certain measure of its own opposite in solution. A solemn joy preserves a sort of bitter in its sweetness; a solemn sorrow is one to which we intimately consent.
~ William James
From the Nazi firebrand dictator had come not brutal threats, as so many had expected, but sweetness and light. The world was enchanted.
~ William L. Shirer
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.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Toi dont la douceur est si douce Qu'elle console l'Inconnu !
~ Henri Barbusse
O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowersAnd shoots of glory, my soul breaks, and buds!
~ Henry Vaughan
The further back he looked, the more life there had been in him; both the more sweetness to life, and the more of life itself. And the two tendencies had become firmly intertwined.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.
~ Leonard Cohen
Reading seeks for the sweetness of a blessed life, meditation perceives it, prayer asks for it, contemplation tastes it.
~ Leonard Sweet
When it was finally my turn, I felt I was growing a whole new chamber in my heart. I nearly swooned, staring at the baby like a lover. I'd never seen anything so delicate and beautiful, so sweet, every feature perfect.
~ Lesley Stahl
O que eu sei é que somos trágicos. Os deuses escolheram assim. Somos todos uma brincadeira deles, marionetes que envelhecem rápido demais, uma experienciazinha carnal - de modo que não lhes interessa a parcimônia: criam uns num caldo de fúria e outros na doçura total.
~ Leticia Wierzchowski
The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
Existo. Es algo tan dulce, tan dulce, tan lento. Y leve; como si se mantuviera solo en el aire. Se mueve. Por todas partes, roces que caen y se desvanecen. Muy suave, muy suave
~ Jean Paul Sartre
What made 'Ice Age' work is that it had its shiny candy coatings, but inside was a soft, creamy center.
~ Chris Wedge