The Gentle Light
HomeU.S. Latest NewsMorning BriefingNews IndexHeartwarmingColumnsGentle QuotesAbout

Inspirational Quotes

calm words
Themes
Tap to filter
Allhope38love14Kindness24Gratitude4Life62Relationships13Work20Lifestyle4Uniqueness13
Theme: Life
Showing: 1-2020 per page

Summer grasses— all that remains of warriors’ dreams.

Matsuo Basho / Oku no Hosomichi

The months and days are travelers through the ages, and the years that come and go are also wayfarers.

Matsuo Basho / Oku no Hosomichi

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

Jane Addams / Twenty Years at Hull-House

Dear Commander Nie, I feel really unwell today. Perhaps I have to bid farewell to you all... Thousands of heartfelt thanks to you and to all our dear comrades.

Antoine De Saint Exupery / The Little Prince

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington / Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington / Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it. Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist.

Emily Carr / Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh / Letters to Theo

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett / The Secret Garden (1911)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats / Endymion (1818)

I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.

William Wordsworth / I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (1807)

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach.

Henry David Thoreau / Walden (1854)

Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson / Attributed

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells / Mind at the End of Its Tether

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W. B. Yeats / Various attributed

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf / Three Guineas

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Isaac Newton / Various attributed

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith / The Wealth of Nations

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

John Locke / Second Treatise of Government

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift / Thoughts on Various Subjects
Showing: 1-20