Quotes About Pure

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there is anything holy, pure and sublime, anything answering that immoderate desire for the infinite and the vague that we call the soul, it is art.

It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dwell in thought upon noble characters, pure affections, and pictures of happiness.

Chloe barked at a movement in the bush. A squirrel sprinted across the street. Chloe growled and feigned a chase. The squirrel stopped and turned back toward us. Chloe barked a boy-you're-lucky-I'm-on-a-leash sound. She didn't mean it. Chloe was a pure thoroughbred wimp. Kiss

I really think that's what music and art is about. It's another way to connect to the divine. It's a real pure way of touching that deeper reality beneath our life.

If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring within about 15 minutes. It doesn't work at home like it does in a nightclub. You've got no atmosphere.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

I didn't trust adults because I thought they were all kind of corrupted. I thought children were pure and innocent, and that was inherently better. I guess I was a philosophical child.

Our natural state is trustin ourselvesin othersuntil we learn differentlythen we hurt as we try to unlearn ituntil it dawns on our hearts that if we live and act with pure intentwe do not need trust.

Bear put his hand over his heart. "I just feel that something horrible has happened to a book somewhere that has my ancestors crying out in horror and pure pain." Ski

I'm glad you don't see it as romantic." "Good gracious, no. It's selfish, pure and simple.

I saw the authentic rather than the rebuilt or enhanced.

The cause of conflict is some fixed idea or one-sided idea. When everyone knows the value of pure practice, we will have little conflict in our world.

and you will become friendly with others. This is the merit of Zen practice. But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort. This is how we practice Zen.

To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.

Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almost other-worldly.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.

Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle in the high aesthetic band,If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily in your medieval hand.And everyone will say,As you walk your flowery way,"If he's content with a vegetable love, which would certainly not suit me,Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!"

As innocent as a new-laid egg.

The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.