The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think increasingly I really come to appreciate the people, the politicians, the interviewees, of any stripe and size who are able… — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think kids like Lurch because he's kind of an earthbound superman. They know he's physically strong and they sense that he's… — Ted Cassidy Copy Share Image
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I have also learned a lot about what aspects of nonbinary are most confusing to people, and... things about the identity that… — E. R. Fightmaster Copy Share Image
“A women is soft and gentle like a flower. Is meant to be love and touch gently . Kissed slowly, respect peacefully.… — Dianerste Ross Copy Share Image
Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Oh, Elizabeth," he murmured, leaning down to press a gentle kiss on her mouth, "I love you so much. You must believe… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
Love, which is quickly kindled in the gentle heart, seized this man for the fair form that was taken from me, the… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul -… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Be gentle with him, Mercy. He's got a heart as big as Texas— he'll die for you without blinking. But he doesn't… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people of Samoa have a gentle way, and they have the humility that comes with managing to get by on the… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history… — Carl Rakosi Copy Share Image
We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as… — Rebecca Lim Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me.… — John Barlas Copy Share Image
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image