Gentle Quotes

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This Christmas mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage… — Howard W. Hunter
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by… — Howard W. Hunter
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts. — Saint Francis de Sales
Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them… — Christine de Pizan
The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its… — Samuel Hahnemann
These days we donâ€™t have to fit into something other people think we are. Weâ€™ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. Iâ€™m a mom,… — Mariska Hargitay
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin
You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive… — Neelie Kroes
Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord. — John Cheever
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness… — Marie Antoinette
Whenever Iâ€™d overÂhear how people found me to be â€˜a bit muchâ€™ (which is the gentle way of sayÂing the word â€˜unbearÂableâ€™), I underÂstood why.… — Steven Morrissey
There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard.… — Laozi
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle — Chogyam Trungpa
My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce. — Charles Farrar Browne
Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side? — Chris LeDoux
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls like… — John A. Keel

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