By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows. — Ovid Copy Share Image
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love. — Shae-Lynn Bourne Copy Share Image
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
“Last night, in silent hours - where the gentle sea touched our skin - I have found the love of your thinking.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
The world is growing gentle, But few know what she owes To the understanding lily And the judgment of the rose. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“ I’d be real gentle, though. Tender. I promise. It’s just that I’ve felt nothing but my own hand for so long.… — Cara McKenna Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meaning, assigns significance… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget.… — Candace Pert Copy Share Image
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion, Can never die, for Love forbids her death. Love has… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.'… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression. — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
“And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky. — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place. — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities. — Rita Hayworth Copy Share Image
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in… — Thomas Dunn English Copy Share Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant. — Laozi Copy Share Image
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle. — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image