Fragrantly Spiced Quotes & Sayings

What is love but delight in another human being? He delights me daily. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues. — Muriel Spark

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men. — John Tillotson

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. — Meryl Streep

I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep... — Anthony Hecht

You think we have a connection because of all the things you've sucked out of my mind by screening, but that isn't real. Trust comes when you've worked with someone for years; it doesn't speed up just because you can think fast, and it doesn't materialize when you stick a cable in someone's head. What you get from screening me isn't friendship, it's data. We're strangers. — Raphael Carter

To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief ... Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it. We have had enough of immorality and the mockery of ethics, goodness, faith and honesty. It is time to acknowledge that light-hearted superficiality has done us no good. When the foundations of social life are corroded, what ensues are battles over conflicting interests, new forms of violence and brutality, and obstacles to the growth of a genuine culture of care for the environment. — Pope Francis

We all know people who have passed on. See their light shining and let their love surround us and soothe us. Each one of us has an infinite supply of love to give. The more we give, the more there is to give. Yes, sometimes it hurts to feel, but thank God we can feel. Let us be comforted and be at peace. And so it is." ~ Louise Hay — Stephen M. Curiel

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances. — Lisa Randall