Gentle Quotes

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In any matter where we have questions, we have a right to ask the Holy Spirit to lead us and to expect His gentle guiding. — Curtis Hutson
Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong… — Tsutomu Ohshima
Each one of us starts Karate with some particular reason: to be a good fighter, to keep in good shape, to protect oneself. I wanted… — Tsutomu Ohshima
Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your… — E T A Hoffmann
And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves,… — Desmond Tutu
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. — Elihu Burritt
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich
Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,â€” do we not hear them saying to… — William Mountford
Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart. — James Martineau
Be gentle with everything in your life. — Bryan Kest
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. — Mary MacLane
The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry… — Mo Yan
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up? — Robert Southey
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our… — Linda McCartney
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil… — William Shakespeare
Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous… — John Milton

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