Gentle Quotes

1044 Gentle quotes by 754 unique authors

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
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest. He is always… — Peter Julian Eymard
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find it… — Julia Cameron
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound… — James E. Faust
Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master… — Richard Le Gallienne
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild... — Charles Wesley
Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter… — Lowell L. Bennion
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on… — John Owen
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them… — Leon Redbone
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God. — Mark Twain
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. — Washington Gladden
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the… — Ole Hallesby
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side. — Theodore J. Forstmann

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