Sweetness Quotes

"Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

Thomas Gray

"Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth."

Jim Elliot

"Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white."

Jim Butcher, Small Favor

"My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth!"

Peggy Toney Horton, Somewhere in Heaven My Mother Is Smiling

"The Best Things In Life Aren't So Sweet But Their Results Are Sweeter!"

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

"Challenges will come that is inevitable. But they can’t easily destroy your future than your own appetite."

Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

"...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief."

Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

"Bitterness and sweetness, are both fruits of egoism. Doing egosim of good deeds brings sweetness. Doing egosim of bad deeds brings bitterness."

Dada Bhagwan

"Your sweet-toting and sugarcoating is of no service to anyone! Do not sugarcoat reality; it only gives the people in your life a sweet-tooth that then makes it more challenging for them to later bite down on the hardness of life. Do not tote and tout sweets either – you’re malnourishing people! Instead give them the truth. What is the truth you may ask? Authentic expression of who you really are, how you really feel, without projecting the labels of right or wrong."

Alaric Hutchinson

"I feel more human when I compare the cuteness of a lizard to a newborn child's sweetness. Both are God's creations filled with precious innocence"

Munia Khan

"You can spread joyfulness in any place of bitterness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

"We love with all our heart but we also keep our heart light and pliable. It has space. It breathes. It waits on life to give instructions. It sings with sweetness when the winds are soft and warm. It stands with calm patience when the storm is brewing. It lets go when endings have left their irrefutable mark. It moves. It heals. It hopes."

Donna Goddard

"Nothing is sweeter than being unapologetically you. Don't live your life just to impress others. Reveal your truth, Express your love, Live your dreams."

Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush

"The sweetness of taste of the truth."

Lailah Gifty Akita

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air."

Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

"In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with majesty and exaltation. And those who come together in the nights and are entwined in rocking delight perform a solemn task and gather sweetness, depth, and strength for the song of some future poet, who will appear in order to say ecstasies that are unsayable."

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower."

C. JoyBell C.

"I'm sweetness an' motherfuckin' light. Filled from goddamn head to toe wit' love."

Garth Ennis, The Boys, Volume 9: The Big Ride

"The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last."

Israelmore Ayivor

"If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything."

Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious."

Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons

"The road to greatness is often sought, but if journeyed with kindness, it is sweetly paved."

Tom Althouse

"Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle."

Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

"I knew if I started touching you I wouldn't be able to stop."

Andrea K. Höst, Lab Rat One

"It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be."

Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

"You will learn about the twinned natures of fate and faith, at times spun together in threads fine as cotton candy, that taste just as sweet and evaporate just as quick. It is not right to say that you will have her, because you cannot truly possess another person. Nor should you even want such a thing."

Trevor Dodge, The Laws of Average

"Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement."

Ben Okri

"The sweetness of a kiss is not in two lips, touching each other; it is in the feelings that bring and keep them together."

M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

"The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness."

Marion Woodman

"I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us."

Roman Payne, The Wanderess

"Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves a shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,and slips into the bosom of the lake:So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip into my bosom and be lost in me."

Alfred Tennyson

"Victory, is like a boxer that hangs his gloves, after the consecutive losses; sometimes walking away is what builds character, than the actual fight. As humble fruit on a tree that falls to the ground and rots, never finding appreciation in the taste of mouths."

Anthony Liccione

"Every universe I’ve created lately, your face keeps popping up in it."

Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes."

Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey

"It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan"

Sarah Brocious, The Awakening

"Don't ever marry a person you don't truly love. Don't believe what people often say, that the love will develop in future.Those whose love develop in future are very few. If after a period of time you've been dating and the love doesn't seem to grow, I strongly advise you have to re-think."

Prince Akwarandu

"It's hot out there." I prowl toward her, pulling off my shirt. I maybe flex my abs a little- anything for my girl."

Ainsley Booth, Hate F*@k: Part 3

"She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords."

Keirsten White

"You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible."

Patricia Wilson, A Certain Affection

"Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down."

M.F. Moonzajer

"His gaze was so soft that she would like to wrap herself with it."

Kristen Heitzmann, Secrets

"Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts."

Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

"When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift."

Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life