But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In… — Elihu Burritt Copy Share Image
“Hearts In Me If I look to the world with hearts in my eyes Then surely I’ll be intrigued and inspired. If… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and… — Sam Pressman Copy Share Image
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I wish I had read Sacred Pregnancy when I was pregnant instead of the dozen books I had to piece together to… — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites;… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the… — Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Of course you did." I took a step closer. "You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a… — Malvina Reynolds Copy Share Image
Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of… — Plato Copy Share Image
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
