Quotes About Purity

Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.

Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Parecia-me que a natureza, menos livre que os velhos poetas, devia servir-se quase que exclusivamente dos elementos comuns à família e não podia atribuir-lhe tal poder de inovação que fizesse, com materiais análogos aos que compunham um tolo e um bruto, um grande espírito sem a menor tara de tolice, uma santa sem a menor mácula de brutalidade.

washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering...

Painful recollections are always of the dead. And the dead decompose rapidly, and there remains the beauty of nature, silence, the purity of air.

People praise to us the sweetness, the purity of a virgin. But quite soon one feels that something spicier would be more appealing and one advises her to be bolder in her manners. In herself, was she rather one than the other? Perhaps not, but capable of taking on so many different forms in the rushing current of life.

Il regarda sa fille et la trouva vierge et désirable.

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then consider ourselves held in the genetic trap. We thought each infant was born pure and new and holy: a gold baby, a luminous lamb. We did not know that certain forms of breast cancer were programmed and almost ineluctable, and we would not have believed you if you had told us that in our lifetime young women would be subjecting themselves to preventative mastectomies.

Was tomorrow going to see the end of her long-guarded virginity?

You have to go through successive diluting and crystallization to find your true light.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

Don't let anyone look down on you for being young. Instead make your speech, behaviour, love, faith, & purity an example.

Purity of heart, mind, and soul is absolutely necessary to live a full life.