Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves,… — Thea Hillman Copy Share Image
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once,… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
...I crave a shawl." He was tense with anger but his hands remained gentle at her waist. He said, "I can make… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At first I wasn’t all that tempted by him, but then he killed the spider. Which was a huge point in his… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
True love is delicate and kind, full of gentle perception and understanding, full of beauty and grace, full of joy unutterable. There… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“Because I want my voice to be the last thing she hears, not the sound of oncoming traffic. I want her to… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We've had some huge moments. But we've always been on a steady, gentle, upward slope, and I think that keeps us grounded.… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I… — Guy Jenkin Copy Share Image
O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to prove to you, no matter… — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was,… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My face wash is the thing I care about the most. I don't think I've ever gone to bed without washing my… — Kirsten Green Copy Share Image
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first… — Cecil Baldwin Copy Share Image
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it… — David Jason Copy Share Image
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
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