Gentle Quotes

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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects… — Joseph Addison
The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly… — Conrad Black
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet… — William S. Burroughs
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being… — Alan Alda
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they… — Barbara Bush
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. — Julia Cameron
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these… — Nick Cave
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful… — James Allen
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. — Frank A. Clark
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather… — Grover Cleveland
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the… — D. H. Lawrence
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her… — Andrew Jackson
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. — Bruce Oldfield
Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to wash and play;… — Edward Gargan
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more… — Chogyam Trungpa
The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the ranks of vast… — John Burroughs
Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work… — William Hazlitt
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. — Jack Dempsey

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