Gentle Quotes

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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings… — H.G. Wells
Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind,… — Peter McWilliams
We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles… — Tennessee Williams
...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only… — Martin Luther
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just. — Michel de Montaigne
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her… — John Calvin
... cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household... — Charles Baudelaire
We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We… — Howard W. Hunter
Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are. — BrenÃ© Brown
Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over… — Sean Covey
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and… — Henri Nouwen
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner… — Chin-Ning Chu
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. — Boy George
Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. — Ralph Washington Sockman
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:… — William Wordsworth
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. — Richard Bach
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for… — Sigmund Freud

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