Gentle Quotes

1044 Gentle quotes by 754 unique authors

I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we… — John Banville
When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then… — Carl Rogers
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as… — Pindar
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to… — Jimmy Carter
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… — Mikhail Lermontov
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain. — William Shakespeare
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness... — George Eliot
THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any… — Walt Whitman
The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the… — Isaac Babel
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who… — Robertson Davies
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. — Joseph Priestley
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women… — Jocelynne Scutt
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… — Laozi
A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes. — Oliver Goldsmith
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And… — George Crabbe
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. — Charles Lamb
The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound,… — Unknown Author
When you see the trees swaying to the tune of a gentle breeze... think of it as a dance in your honor. — Marjolein Bastin
Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather… — Isaac of Nineveh
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to… — Colleen Houck
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being… — Unknown Author
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. — Bhartrhari

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