Pure love produces pure nonsense.
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PAMELA PURE She makes me feel like the reason I have a soul is so I have something pure to give her.
SCOTT SHULTZ My pure love is playing music.
JAMIE CULLUM A pure love is a dead love.
ALBERT CAMUS Nothing is impossible for pure love.
MAHATMA GANDHI Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
LOPE DE VEGA Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
LOPE DE VEGA Where one has become indifferent (nispruha), there pure love has not arisen. And where there is no p...
DADA BHAGWAN Supongo que hay dos tipos de personas en el mundo: los que se sientan alrededor de un fuego a mirar ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT True love comes from a pure heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I love creatures in their pure form.
BEN KINGSLEY Love is divine
Love is pure.
Love is noble.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pure heart, pure soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pure thoughts, pure action.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audi...
DAVID A. R. WHITE Pure heart begets pure thoughts.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
ANDREW WILES Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE Pure heart more precious than pure gold
RACHMAD ROFIK Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Pure heart begets pure body, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I never said that. Pure invention. Pure invention,
THABO MBEKI Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO Feel within, the pure and unconditional Love and embrace all.
GRIGORIS DEOUDIS But it was pure, this love that I was feeling.
ELIZABETH GILBERT We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...
FULTON J. SHEEN Actual friendship is the most priceless of all things because it is a combination of two pure hearts...
DELETE ACCOUNT Vegan is just pure love. Love for animals, love for the planet, and love for yourself.
MISCHA TEMAUL We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will...
MUTULA KILONZO It's pure spite, pure retaliation. That's all it is.
GREG WILLIAMS A person does not become clean and pure enough that they are then worthy of God's love and are exalt...
MITCHELL JORGENSEN "Flowers always bloom in the garden of pure love."
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
UNKNOWN Love is pure like the fresh fallen snow unencumbered by yesterday’s debris.
COLLEEN LAUKKA My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest res...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDE "When pure love flows between two hearts, the souls connect."
~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
SIDDHÃRTHA GAUTAMA BUDDHA Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure
BUDDHA Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because ...
AMIT ABRAHAM My love for you is like a rushing waterfall, it's pure and overflowing.
JEREMY CHEATWOOD Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE Pure and complete sorrow is about as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY I am intrigued by the beauty of love.
I was moved by the love of beauty.
NURUDEEN USHAWU I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I speci...
ROBERT J. SHILLER The real Simon Pure.
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes...
GREGOR COLLINS He must be pure who would blame another
DANISH PROVERB It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on th...
ZADIE SMITH Music for a higher sensibility... Musica para una alta sensibilidad.
FRANK OBREGON If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have ...
LOREN EISELEY He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
VENERABLE BEDE It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.
TIONNE WATKINS But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was ...
GEORGE ORWELL Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure;...
BIBLE They're pure showgirl birds, a touch of Las Vegas maybe. That's pure Julie stuff.
DAVID KNEUSS Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.
CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND The ultimate form is the embodiment of love (Premswaroop)! The love of these (so called) lovers (Rom...
DADA BHAGWAN To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE A pure soul always finds love. Even through hate, they will always find the ability to claim love.
TILLIE COLE The Marvel world is a pure joy to be a part of.
COBIE SMULDERS The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
JOHNNY DEPP Black as the devil, Hot as hell,
Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.
CHARLES-MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving
anything in return.
PILGRIMS Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
PEACE PILGRIM He has a pure love of the game, no arrogance, and no fear of failure.
DAVID ENGLISH I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
DONNA LYNN HOPE Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
SIMONE WEIL Nature is Pure.
RICARDO ALONSO The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and g...
RADHANATH SWAMI Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions o...
RUSSELL M. NELSON As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
VICTOR HUGO The value of life depends on the amount of pure love that you are giving away.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots.
GUNTER GRASS Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is pure flame.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE Religion is pure hypnosis
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Keep your thoughts pure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Praying is pure philosophy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.
MONICA JOHNSON If your fiancé or fiancée asked why you love them so much. Remember to say to them no one can expl...
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA I love making vegetable, pea, and broccoli soups. They're pure, low-calorie, and incredibly tast...
IVANKA TRUMP The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLI The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLIERE Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKA Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Prayer keeps the heart pure.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Give little but give pure.
SUPERNA BATHEJA Praying is a pure path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It was a pure accident.
JOE LONG from that terrible love the soft pure hands
gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.
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