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Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. -- Marc Riboud
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness. -- Poppy Z. Brite
Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do. -- John Piper
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. -- Raymond Chandler
I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it. -- Gillian Jacobs
I've always believed in savoring the moments. In the end, they are the only things we'll have. -- Anna Godbersen
The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted. -- Arnold Bennett
I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end. -- Michael Steinhardt
Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ. -- John Piper
The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses. -- Anne Rice
From eternity to eternity, the beauty of God is pervasive and practical. Ask him to open the eyes of your heart (Ephesians 1:18). Give your life to this quest - seeing and savoring more and more of the happifying beauty of God. -- John Piper
The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ's death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty. -- John Piper
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume. -- Anne Rice
Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity. -- Daniel Dennett
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days. -- Rumer Godden
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
I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel. -- Fergie
The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it. -- Tara Brach
The inner essence of worship is cherishing Christ as gain - indeed as more gain than all that life can offer - family, career, retirement, fame, food, friends. The essence of worship is experiencing Christ as gain. Or to use words that we love to use around here: it is savoring Christ, treasuring Christ, being satisfied with Christ. -- John Piper
I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell. -- Sara Gruen
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. -- Amy Bloom
Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education. -- John Piper
This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste. -- Nicole Jordan
Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second. -- Marc Riboud
Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose. -- Steven Pinker
I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment. -- Lauren Miller
I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. -- Pat Mora
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community. -- Howard Schultz
That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring. -- Nick Willis
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters. -- Genghis Khan
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring. -- Albert Hadley

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