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.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile.
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
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.
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
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.
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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.