#sweetness

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. ↗

— William Penn

#between #children #his #love #man

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

— Paul Hoffman

#blush #born #cale #desert #die

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

— William Shakespeare

#grief #parting #sadness #sorrow #sweetness

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

#sweetness #inspirational

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#mouths #old #old people #our #people

For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#christ #devotion #god #jesus #jesus christ

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

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. ↗

— J.R. Miller

#sweetness #beauty

Don’t let me to be lost in my dreams; they are as scary as your sweetness. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#sweetness #dreams