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• Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Body, Tranquility

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.174, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.

  Angela of Foligno

  Fire, Soul, Delight

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• We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

  John Tillotson

  Heart, Pleasure, Forethought

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• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Pain, Laughter

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

  Glenn Beck

  Understanding

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• Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Divinity, Flow

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• Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if something irritates him, the bond of love is not dissolved; rekindling himself with warmth of the love of God, he quickly recovers himself and with great joy seeks his neighbor's love, even though he has been gravely wronged or insulted by him. For sweetness of God completely consumes the bitterness of the quarrel.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Spiritual, Peace, Love Is

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• We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

  Cornel West

  Kindness, Radical, Subversive

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• Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Meat, Sugar

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.166, Harvard University Press

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• This is a donut. It is very sweet, and very good. But if you've never tasted a donut, you wouldn't really know how sweet and how good a donut is... meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.

  David Lynch

  Sweet, Giving, Meditation

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• Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Calendars, Virtue, Equanimity

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.64

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• Without modesty, woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Humility, Jewels, Quality

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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Flower, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

  J.R. Miller

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Joy

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• Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

  Nicolas Poussin

  Eye, Color, Painting

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• There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.

  Rumi

  Spirit, Emptiness, Satan

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• If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.

  William George Jordan

  Home, Grit, Littles

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• We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

  Midge Decter

  Light, Oil, Middle East

  "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

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• Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Book, Moon, Simple

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.128, Harper Collins

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• The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.

  Thomas Malory

  Pain, Love Is, Endure

  Sir Thomas Malory (1962). “Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table”, Signet

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• It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

  George Eliot

  Men, Joy, Forever

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148

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• The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Islamic, Next, Remember

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• The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Thanksgiving, Pie, Spoons

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• Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
  And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Rose, May, December

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• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

  Mary Schmich

  Mother, Sibling, Grief

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.28, Agate Digital

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