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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.
Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
Sleep is a death, O make me try
By sleeping, what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.
How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.
I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.
Sombre and rich, the skies;
Great glooms, and starry plains.
Gently the night wind sighs;
Else a vast silence reigns.
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!
Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.
And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.
Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.
While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.
The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.
See Time has touched me gently in his race,
And left no odious furrows in my face.
God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything.
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.
When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Daily contact with boys who had not been brought up as gently as I worked an immediate and, in some respects, a beneficial change in my character.
Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.
Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.
My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be.
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?
What did Romeo and Juliet do?” They died,” I remind her gently. “Some mix-up with the poison-
I think lifes a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tides just gently helping you along.
Visualize the soft white light continuing to expand as it gently swirls around, until it has filled the earth, the sky, the universe, and all of infinity.
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places.
Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.
Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
Provence: sunshine.
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.
Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.
Angel cake is an American classic; a delicate meringue gently merged with minimal flour and zero butter, angelic because of its fluffy texture.
A Dominie in Gray--
Put gently up the evening Bars--
And led the flock away
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.
It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
