Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others. — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor… — William Cavendish Copy Share Image
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be… — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
No one has ever touched me like you do. You’re like a whisper. Gentle, soft. Soothing. In my world, the people only… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Whenever I’d overhear how people found me to be ‘a bit much’ (which is the gentle way of saying the word ‘unbearable’),… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth -- but ours are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, - Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image