#clean

The house was clean, scrubbed and immaculate, curtains washed, windows polished, but all as a man does it - the ironed curtains did not hang quite straight and there were streaks on the windows and a square showed on the table when a book was moved. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#house #men #men

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#cleanliness #dejan-stojanovic #fresh-air #literature #literature-quotes

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain. ↗

— Aeschylus

#cleanse #course #flow #hand #hasten

I would rather clean than beg. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#clean #i #rather #than #would

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. ↗

— Tori Amos

#analyze #begin #bleeding #cleansing #crawl

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#anything #clean #come #different #i

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#always #any #began #clarity #cleanly

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#causes #cleanse #despair #eliminate #failed

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. ↗

— Sai Baba

#cleansing #complete #different #different kinds #difficulties

Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions. ↗

— Sai Baba

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