A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do… — Mary Elizabeth Frye 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
Polish people have a wit and sarcasm. They're gentle but still very strong. Like, they love beer, which is traditionally so manly,… — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative. — Kevin Biegel Copy Share Image
The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress:… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl,… — Wayne Muller 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
