Sweetness Of Life Quotes:

The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

- Muhammad Ali

topic: Lying, Sweetness Of Life, Formality

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.

- Theodor Fontane

topic: Use, Steps, Moments, Sweetness Of Life, Accompany Us

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Tears, Needs, Salt, Sweetness Of Life, Savoring

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Lying, Heart, Honey, Sweetness Of Life, Clovers

Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

- Javad Alizadeh

source: Humor & Caricature magazine, September 1995.

topic: Bitterness, Sweetness, Sweetness Of Life

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: People, Steps, Civility, Insincerity, Sweetness Of Life

O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.

- Saint Basil

topic: Song, Brother, Pain, Sweetness Of Life

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance for us. Dance us the sweetness of life. Give us again the sweetness and the beauty of the true dance, give us again the joy of seeing the simple unconscious pure body of a woman. Like a great call it has come, and women must hear it and answer it.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Eye, Tired, Simple, Sweetness Of Life

I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.

- Emily St. John Mandel

source: Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.109, Vintage

topic: Home, Earth, Forget, Sweetness Of Life

I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward all creatures will be experienced, and a care felt in us that we do not lessen that sweetness of life in the animal creation which the Great Creator intends for them under our government.

- John Woolman

source: John Woolman (1837). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences, of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman”, p.171

topic: Believe, Animal, Government, Sweetness Of Life

When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

- Elizabeth Lesser

source: Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.81, Random House

topic: Pain, Heart, Loss, Inner Growth, Open Heart