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Gentle Quotes by Laozi
- In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be…
- A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they…
- In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak…
- 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.…
- Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes…
- Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
- When life begins we are tender and weak When life ends we are stiff and rigid All things, including the grass and trees, are soft…
- Though (the Tao) is uncreated itself, it creates all things. Because it has no substance, it can enter into where there is no space. Exercising…
- Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value.…
- Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.
- Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader…
- I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me…
More Gentle Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Conrad Black
- Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of… — 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,… — 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… — 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… — Nick Cave