Quotes About Savor

#1. Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Nancy Gibbs

#2. I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

Dave Smalley

#3. Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Edward Hoagland

#4. We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.

Robin S. Sharma

#5. We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

E.B. White

#7. That was one of your favorite themes: that profusion, replication, popularity wasn't necessarily devaluing, and that time itself made all things rare. You loved to savor the present tense and were more conscious than anyone I have ever met that its every constituent is fleeting.

Lionel Shriver

#8. Maybe this man experiences another kind of reality where he is here and there, before and after, and he moves from one to the other shatteringly, in a state of collapse, minus an identity, a language, a way to enjoy the savor of the honey-coated toast she watches him eat. She

Don DeLillo

#9. We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing

Munia Khan

#10. Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. There are no rules.
Love.
Survival.
Truth.
Freedom.
I write my words. I savor them. They have taste and strength and memory and rhythm.
Outside my window, I see the morning star. And I watch it until it winks out in the light of dawn.

Katherine Longshore

#12. He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.
Chinese Sayings

Helen Evans Brown

#13. Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

Laozi

#14. All 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom.

Bell Hooks

#15. One learned to take time to savor life, much as one took time to savor a good meal or glass of wine. The French called it "l'entente de la vie," the harmony of life.

David McCullough

#16. Love is our greatest achievement. Don't ever forget that. Don't squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know when a rogue wave might sweep you away.

Julianne MacLean

#17. No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Anderson Silva

#18. There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you ... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Ruth Stout

#19. You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that ...

Geneen Roth

#20. I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Trisha Yearwood

#21. The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#22. I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor.

Melinda De Ross

#23. long to taste the honeyed breeze and touch the rubied apple's flavor - to speak with soft conversing leaves, the songs of sky's white clouds to savor.

Marcia Lynn McClure

#24. I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in.

Alan Cumming

#25. The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will tell us that their evils are only necessities of the times. But they will linger in the house of the Devil, savor his vintage, and acquire a taste for it.

Michael Ennis

#26. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#27. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#28. I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

Nikki Sixx

#29. Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It's like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW

Rob Wood

#30. Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes.

Anne Lamott

#31. The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on my son's floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever.

Shelley Ramsey

#33. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.

Will Schwalbe

#34. Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#35. And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.

Cindee Snider Re

#36. Life is a Gift. Unwrap it slowly and savor each moment, or, rip through it like a hurricane and get tossed around.

Cathrina Constantine

#37. Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. I sneak out of my room at night, when all is still and silent. And I watch the humans sleeping, study their vulnerabilities, and savor the fact that I will never be helpless like them again.

I am mad, and i embrace it.

A.G. Howard

#39. To imagine...to dream...to aspire...to desire. The four nectars of life. Drink deep and savor the sweetness."
David Robbins

David Robbins

#40. If one would praise the Almighty, one must then revel in His works, and take them whole, adore their very grossness, savor the oozing quiddity of that slime of which He seems to be inordinately fond. Love is not nice. God's love assuredly is not; and human love, its copy, must not presume to be so.

Eric Frank Russell

#41. I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Catherynne M Valente

#42. Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

Charles Baxter

#43. Some books you read and savor. Some, you carry close to your heart.

S.R. McKade

#44. I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

Gunilla Brodde Norris

#45. Anybody who's read 'Pretty Deadly' knows that I tend to savor an immersive, 'You'll figure it out as you go!' style. 'Pretty Deadly' really does not hold your hand.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#46. You consume me. I want to drink you down, lick you up and savor every last drop of you.

Keren Reed

#47. Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

Simone De Beauvoir

#48. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.

Nas

#49. Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Cormac McCarthy

#50. But it kind of feels nice to nurture her resentment, to foster it. It's something she can savor and control, this feeling of having been wronged by the world.

Christina Baker Kline

#51. Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night.

Charles Hart

#52. A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.

Kate Clinton

#53. Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey.

A.E. Samaan

#54. Tolerance of diversity is imperative, because without it, life would lose its savor. Progress in the arts, in the sciences, in the patterns of social adjustment springs from diversity and depends upon a tolerance of individual deviations from conventional ways and attitudes.

Alan Barth

#55. Without judgments life loses its hierarchical quality of being a choice between preferences and by losing that, it loses it's savor.

Auliq Ice

#56. Stop looking at me like that."
Sorry, I just wanted to savor the moment," Mom replied.
What moment?" I asked.
You're in first place," she said, and then began washing the windows.

Lisa Lutz

#57. Trust me, I'm looking forward to it. But it's like cramming a whole ice cream cone in my mouth and swallow it whole. What good is that? It's over and done in a second. I want to really taste it, to lick it slowly. I want to savor the ice cream, you know what I'm saying?

Erin McCarthy

#58. Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.

Billy Graham

#59. Please do the Human race a favor ... choose your words as food and savor ...

K.j. Force

#60. Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

James Russell Lowell

#61. Speak up, Stand up, Take risks and Savor.

Roeau Vetrano

#62. Do whatever it takes to increase your sensitivity to the little things in life you wouldn't otherwise notice, much less savor, if your autopilot setting is hurry. You've got to power down frequently enough to enjoy the effects of intentional living.

Tsh Oxenreider

#63. I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.

Crystal Woods

#64. Sweetness cloys. Tart fruit and tart women give life its savor ... Daenerys, sweet queen, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it gives me to bask once more in your presence.

George R R Martin

#65. I've tasted every victual and danced every dance; now there's one last tart I haven't bit on, one time I haven't whistled. but I'm not afraid. I'm truly curious. Death won't get a crumb by my mouth I won't keep and savor. So don't you worry over me. Now, all of you go, and let me find my sleep ...

Ray Bradbury

#66. How impervious to things spiritual, my heart!" cries a St. Bernard. "No savor in pious reading, no pleasure in meditation nor in prayer!

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#67. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.

C.L. Wilson

#68. If ever there was a metaphor to illustrate the importance of the journey over the destination, it is life itself.
For everyone who departs from birth is destined for death, so the journey IS life. Savor it!

Michele Jennae

#69. Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?

Katrina Kenison

#70. The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

Rainn Wilson

#71. savor
with me
the lushness
of a lingering sleep...
and last night's
dream.

Sanober Khan

#72. He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment.

Jeff VanderMeer

#73. I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.

Grace Lee Boggs

#74. To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Gretchen Rubin

#75. I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Michael Dirda

#76. There are times I'm on the subway and it's so packed I can't escape the legs on my left and right. New Yorkers rage about this forced physical contact, but I secretly savor it, so soothed by the heat generated between bodies I could fall asleep on the shoulder of a stranger.

Jessica Knoll

#77. We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

#78. I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

Alice McDermott

#79. Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

Edward Boyden

#80. I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

Warren Christopher

#81. Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Nora Roberts

#82. But the Russian writers would be packed away in mothballs and stored in our basement. I would savor the idea of Dostoevsky's, Tolstoy's and Gorki's volumes molding in the dank cellar, wisps of camphor and odors of wet earth floating above them. I

Maya Angelou

#83. Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Bill Hybels

#84. Savor what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be.

Sandra Bullock

#85. Not before night approaches can we savor how miraculous the day, and the blossoms we gather belatedly, have been.

Christopher S. Wren

#86. I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.

Peggy Noonan

#87. When somebody you love dies, you want the world to just stop, but it doesn't ... everything keeps going, and so it's up to you to catch the moment ... to savor that time ... years ago when you ran hand in hand down the hill with your sister.

Wes Adamson

#88. Because money permits a constant stream of luxuries and indulgences, it can take away their savor, and by permitting instant gratification, money shortcuts the happiness of anticipation. Scrimping, saving, imagining, planning, hoping
these stages enlarge the happiness we feel.

Gretchen Rubin

#89. When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

Max Lucado

#90. Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

Vinita Hampton Wright

#91. Here is a book to savor?flavorful and nutritious, it sticks to the mind's ribs. The 'New Agrarianism' is about Americans re-learning how to care for the land, and Eric Freyfogle has thoughtfully assembled a banquet of eloquent voices.

Tony Hiss

#92. The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.

Leopold Sedar Senghor

#93. Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

Steve Winwood

#94. She grinned and inched closer. He became an blur, but she wanted to savor every bit of him - the oaky musk of his cologne, the sparks his warm touch shot through her.

S.M. Boyce

#95. As we used to say in the mountains, "Breathe. Breathe again. With every breath, you are alive." After all these years, this still the best advice I can give you: Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Nando Parrado

#96. For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible.

Steven Pinker

#97. I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Kathy Mattea

#98. I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.

Veronica Roth

#99. My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

Lady Bird Johnson

#100. Celebrate the journey. It's not all about the destination. Savor all of your successes, even the small ones.

Dawn Gluskin