Pure Quotes - page 12

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. (Greg Anderson)
I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. View quote
Osamu Dazai
Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire? View quote
David Levithan
You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel. View quote
J.R. Ward
Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes. View quote
Jack Ketchum
He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom. View quote
Etgar Keret
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find. View quote
Caroline Knapp
You see, unfortunately, I am not black. There are lots of different kinds of blood in our family. But here in the United States, the word "Negro” is used to mean anyone who has any Negro blood at all in his veins. In Africa, the word is more pure. It means all Negro, therefore black. I am brown. My father was a darker brown. My mother an olive-yellow. View quote
Langston Hughes
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom. View quote
Ben Okri
He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love. (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. View quote
Bodhidharma
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure. View quote
Bodhidharma
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself. View quote
Max Wertheimer
If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love. View quote
Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. View quote
Ishmael Beah
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure. View quote
Mikha'il Na'ima
If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' View quote
Nancy Greene
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. (Jil Sander)
If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake. View quote
Dennis Weaver
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. View quote
Michael Hutchence
There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control. View quote
Iris Chang