#softly

I praise loudly. I blame softly. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#i #loudly #praise #softly

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #death #end #follow #i

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. ↗

— Donald Justice

#close #coming #doors #forty #learn

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dreams #softly #tread #you

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#being #dreams #feet #i #only

I'm swimming," Caspian announced. "Sort of. Do you think that will interfere with my mermaid search? If I fall into the ocean and I'm not drowning, do you think she'll bother to save me?" "I think your mermaid probably has a life," Wills said..."You can't count on her to be waiting around for you every day. So drowning on purpose makes you an idiot. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#kill-me-softly #mermaid #mermaids #sarah-cross #wills

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words." ↗

— Charles Moore

#any #blacks #both #brother #ever

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#crime #hit #hitting #never #soft

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#asleep #away #close #dream #dreamers

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust. ↗

— Janette Oke

#faith #love #love-comes-softly #romance #experience