Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."
Sweetness quotes
Sweetness
45 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Cornel West
Philosopher
"We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness."
Timothy Keller
Pastor, Author
"We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory."
Euripides
Playwright
"They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears."
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"The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it."
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"Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid."
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"I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo."
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"There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness."
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"Enough is so vast a sweetness I suppose it never occurs."
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"A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence."
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"Is love the sweetness of flowers?"
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"How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense."
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