#sweetness

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#religion

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. ↗

— Marie de France

#all things #because #dare #high #i

What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile. ↗

— Richard Rodgers

#awhile #been #light #quite #sweetness

After too spicy food only, one can realize the actuall sweetness of SUGAR ↗

— Samar Sudha

#sweetness #food

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

#love #sweetness #life

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#gives #kiss #passion #sweetness

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#become #channels #could #creating #develop

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dew #finds #heart #laughter #little

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#depends #important #life #name #only

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

#god #love #sweetness #the-cross #love