The purity of life
is the highest and most authentic art to follow.
-Unknown
Who knows what sort of life would result
if we attained to purity?
If I knew so wise a man as could teach me purity
I would go to seek him forthwith.
-Henry David Thoreau
Purity is being all and only what one is.
-Lyn Birkbeck
Pure water is transparent;
the same is true of a pure mind.
-Christian Larson
Water ensures external purity
And truthfulness shows the internal.
-Tiruvalluvar
As purity of conduct has to do with our actions,
purity of mind has to do with the power of concentration.
-Joseph Goldstein
To be purified is to will one thing.
-Soren Kierkegaard
To be pure is to have but a single motive.
To be impure is to be mixed motives.
-John Seaman Garns
Purity of soul
cannot be lost without consent.
-Saint Augustine
Purity is the power
to contemplate defilement.
-Simone Weil
Water which is too pure has no fish.
-Ts'ai Ken T'an
The purity men love is like the azure mists
which envelop the earth,
and not like the azure ether beyond.
-Henry David Thoreau
The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
-Henry David Thoreau
The stream is always purer at its source.
-Blaise Pascal
Cleanse the fountain
if you would purify the streams.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
Purity of mind sets free springs of inspiration
which are otherwise kept closed.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
If there is no purity of mind,
nothing else can give that exquisite joy
for which every soul yearns.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Only consciousness full of light
can be pure.
-Aurobindo Ghose
One must be able to reflect
even the purest of things.
-Andre Gide
Unto the pure,
all things are pure.
-The Bible
As to the pure all things are pure,
even so to the impure all things are impure.
-Julius Charles Hare
No doubt to the pure all things are pure,
but in order to become pure
it is necessary to observe the rules of purity.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Your capacity to keep your vow
will depend on the purity of your life.
-Mohandas Gandhi
I don't tell the murky world to turn pure,
I purify myself and check my reflection
in the water of the valley brook.
-Ryoken Taigu
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
As sure as is pure
-Lyn Birkbeck
The price of purity is purists.
-Calvin Trillin
To the Puritan
all things are impure.
-D. H. Lawrence
While our hearts are pure,
Our lives are happy and our peace is sure.
-William Winter
If your heart is pure,
then all things in your world are pure.
-Ryokan Taigu
Pure and chaste as the falling snow.
-Thomas Buchanan Read
Pure as the naked heavens.
-William Wordsworth
Purity is the diamond of the soul.
-Edward Counsel
Let your virtues dissolve
in the sea of purity.
-Hazrat Ianyat Khan
