Gentle Quotes
1044 Gentle quotes by 754 unique authors
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Don’t let any emotional thought concerning success or failure, fame or gain, overtake you, and don’t dwell upon them. Give up your personal shortcomings, such…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo…
— Dinty W. Moore
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I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.
— Colin Firth
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A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely…
— Taraji P. Henson
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There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I’ve never seen an exploding helicopter. I’ve never seen anybody go and blow somebody’s head off. So why should I make films about them? But…
— John Cassavetes
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with…
— Geoffrey Gorer
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Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!
— Alan Titchmarsh
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One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner,…
— Rick Dees
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The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His…
— Matthew Henry
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The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles…
— Cecil Palmer
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The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
— Michel de Montaigne
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O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.
— William Wordsworth
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
— Anjelica Huston
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
— Catherine Doherty
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This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle…
— John Quincy Adams
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The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to…
— Carl Rogers
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She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside…
— Homer
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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading…
— Walt Whitman
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[Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that…
— Lisa Loomer
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If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to…
— Ruth Graham
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It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the…
— Vincent de Paul
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Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and captives. Resort to…
— Vincent de Paul
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