SWEET.....

"Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight....with wings of gentle flush, over delicate white. And taper fingers catching all things. To bind them all about with tiny rings...." - John Keats

"How luscious lies the pea within the pod..." -Emily Dickinson

"There are few pleasures like burrowing one's nose in sweet peas.."  -Angela Thirkell

"I like not lady slippers, or yet the sweet pea blossoms, nor yet the flaky roses ...I like chaliced lilies.....that in our garden grow.." 

                                                               -Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness...." - Goethe

"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes..." -Sri Chinmoy

"The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom..." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"God is the seed. The universe is the tree. impulses and passions the branches. Intelligence is the flower. Pure consciousness is the fruit. Love is the sweetness in the fruit..." - Sathya Sai Baba

"The very shape of our dreams defines us. .....without our dreams there is no sweetness, no purpose to life...." -Isobelle Carmody 

"Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness, and out of many are made one..." -Aelred of Rievaulx

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