Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build… — Georgia Douglas Johnson Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
