Freshness Quotes

• The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Youth, Blameless

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• Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Mind, Clarity, Moments

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• Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

  Robert Bresson

  Spontaneity, Instant

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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• Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

  Julia Child

  Differences, Essentials

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• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

  Samuel Ullman

  Mind, Vigor, Lips

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Degrees, Lasts, Firsts

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

  August Bournonville

  Beautiful, Dance, Novelty

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

  Paul Valery

  Advantage, Loses

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• Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

  John Updike

  Life, Yummy, Long

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• I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Vision, World

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Fall

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

  Rumi

  Love, Spring, Autumn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

  Ralph Nader

  Age, Way, Terrible

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• Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

  John Constable

  Light, Perfection, Dew

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

  Aeschylus

  Learning, Science, Youth

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Sarcastic, Giving, Want

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• ... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

  Freya Stark

  Light, Dust, Joy

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  Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

  John Muir

  Peace, Nature, Sunshine

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  Minor White

  Children, Mean, Eye

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• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

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• Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, Balance, Fruit

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• No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Heart, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.74, Atlântico Press

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

  May Sarton

  Baby, Genius, Forget

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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