Best moments & pure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you're on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.”

Moments Eye Jesus Pure Letting Go Compromise Fixed Grounded

Author:Adam Young

“I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.”

“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.”

Men World Life Should Humans Persons Doe Reason Moments Existence Knowing Fool Pure Selfishness Reasonable Traits Finite Propensity Expanse

Author:Derek R. Audette

“A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.”

May Moments Light Happens Behinds Doors Effects Pure Longing Accidents Weather Dust Relish Barns Windmills Trivial Things

Book:The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry

“I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I cannot. Is it because they fall so far beneath my boyish imagination? When I was a schoolboy I thought a fair woman a pure Goddess; my mind was a soft nest in which some one of them slept, though she knew it not.”

Mind Moments Feelings Certain Fall Women Imagination Pure Fairs Strive Goddess Nests Boyish

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.”

Men Mind Heart States Moments Truth Life Is Spirit Love Is Pure Beats Incredibles Purity Inward Credible

Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.”

Ifs Moments Past Social Sex Creation Pure Ideals Relation Aids Partners Chains Ignored Peril Transmission Coupling

Author:Susan Sontag

“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”

Soul States Moments Inspiration Literature Force Forever Poet Pure Creating Genuine

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?”

Men World Moments Form Air Sky Pure Creatures Blue Barriers Breaking Down Floats Blue Sky

Book:Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

Source: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror

“I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Today Form Simple Modern Amount Pure Capitalism Caught Definitions Surrender All Time Dominant Old Fashioned

Author:Alain Badiou

“It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.”

Thinking Want Moments Body Next Voice Millions Clear Cry Baby Pure Intellectual Want U Interference

Author:Jean Liedloff

“Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.”

Philosophy Moments Life Is Joy Situation Awareness Pure Access Radiance Pure Joy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.”

States Moments Spirit Objects Pure Conscious Devotion Innocence Concentration

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.”

Source: Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal

“How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.”

Way Mind Doe Moments Belief Perfect Consciousness Silence Opinion Pure Concepts Endless Live In The Moment Noisy Mazes

Author:Leonard Jacobson

“A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you involuntarily inhale and say 'Wow!'”

Moments Consciousness Pure Photographer Wow Astonishment Inhale

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

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