For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is in my nature to be kind,gentle and loving. But know this: When it comes to matters of protecting my friends,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to… — Zoroaster Copy Share Image
A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My father lifted me up in his strong gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, "I know you… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh… — Ching Hai Copy Share Image
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful,… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“You need what I call the Gentle Powers.’ ‘Oh, please tell me what they are!’ ‘Beauty, and Time, and the Past and… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
May I live this day... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Wouldn t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving,… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
Without that poise and balance and gentle humor and caring sense, nothing happens at all. It's just egotism and vanity and jealousy… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I made my voice firm and warm and gentle, and said, “Dr. Volescu, it’s gonna be fine, okay? But you need to… — Martha Wells Copy Share Image
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn't need your seriousness or your regard. He just… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
He goes along just as a water lily Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats Unweighed down by passion… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away… — H. Peter Loewer Copy Share Image
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate,… — David Connolly Copy Share Image
...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image