Soothing Quotes - Page 7

• Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Larks, Complaining

  Robert Burns (2010). “The Canongate Burns”, p.860, Canongate Books

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• Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

  John Keble

  Sweet, Men, Age

  John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173

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• Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Stars, Men, Names

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4502, Delphi Classics

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• Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

  Paul Theroux

  Jobs, People, Naked

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Spring, Looks, Delight

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Passion, Heart

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• I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.

  Theophilus London

  Theater, Movie Theater

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• We cherish the conventional story of Dr. King and nonviolence, in fact, precisely because that narrative demands so little of us…This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Kings, Moving, Demand

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• There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

  Richard Armour

  Love, Pain, Disappointment

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• I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day.I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Believe, Sleep, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.156, Storey Publishing

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• God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth - but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it - a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

  Meher Baba

  Adversity, Men, Different

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• [I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Justice, Funeral, Balance

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• It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies. As a result, no possibility existed of soothing and winning over influential and talented Americans, in the way that influential and talented Scotsmen were increasingly being won over, by giving them increased access to state employment.

  Linda Colley

  Winning, Past, Giving

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.136, Yale University Press

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• Usually when I'm mad, I'd rather listen to angry music than soothing music - more heavy metal, some Metallica or something.

  Matt Kenseth

  Mad, Metallica, Heavy Metal

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sweet, Regret, Twilight

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• I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as its great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Eight, Shining, Skins

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• The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grief, Heart, Complaining

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• I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

  Kirstie Alley

  Heart, Night, Broken

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  William Gilmore Simms

  Moon, Sea, Sailing

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• How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

  Jane Porter

  Eye, Hands, Voice

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.114

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• Teach the heart not to give way to proud emotions and arrogant thinking; bring the mind to heart-soothing solutions that make it possible to control oneself gently and wisely.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Heart, Thinking, Giving

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Water, Bottles, Bouquets

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• Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

  Richard Engel

  Wall, Fence

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