Subtle Quotes
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Our subtle-energy bodies play a major role in maintaining our health. Energy disturbances in the etheric body precede the manifestation of abnormal patterns of cellular organization and growth.
Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realise the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
When you do television, you have this opportunity to drop these subtle hints everywhere. The way you say things, for example, sometimes those seeds turn into trees.
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious.
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.
Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.
Mary, you make me wanna eat you Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.
The mind is vast in its combinations of time, space and form. It contains every vibration from subtle to gross.
The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.
When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.
I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.
you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.