#purity

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#being #clear #falsehoods #force #human

Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of. [2000] ↗

— Chavela Vargas

#humor #lesbian #purity #rareza #shame

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#instinct #purity #life

For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#expression #i #intensity #me #mind

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#celibate #had #his #instrument #maintain

People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#beauty #purity-myth #sad #beauty

Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#human-folly #purity #beauty

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#clean-heart #purity #beauty

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#feeling #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#purity #home