Gentle Quotes - Page 18

• 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 seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.

  Leon Redbone

  Mean, Kissing, Opportunity

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• ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Should

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

  Washington Gladden

  Powerful, Quiet, Prevailing

  Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”

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• 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 which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Paris, Drawing

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• 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 shower, your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will, in God's time, descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Change, Prayer, Rain

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• 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

  Letting Go, Government, Hands

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• The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sweet, Philosophical, Animal

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Kindness, Heart, Giving

  "The Ladder of the Beatitudes". Book by Jim Forest, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.48, Penguin

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• Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when we want to. Then it will be a natural response; we will cry when it is time to cry, and laugh when we should laugh. Do you understand? We can get angry when necessary; we can be gentle if we have to. We will completely become our own master. Then, no matter what we want to do, it will benefit the world. It is not difficult to attain this stage; all we need to do is to mediate.

  Ching Hai

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Laughing

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• Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

  William Holden

  Death, People, Dying

  "Fictional character: Joe Gillis". "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• To me, he was the grand master of wine. He was a forceful Russian and a gentle person. The greats of wine all over the world have great affection and admiration for him. What a beautiful man he was and what a privilege to have been touched by him.

  Margrit Mondavi

  Beautiful, Wine, Men

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• Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

  Ovid

  Art, Teaching, Men

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Children, Kindness, Destiny

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• How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.

  Gerald Heaney

  Teaching, Eye, Law

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• When we seek inspiration to help make decisions, the Lord gives gentle promptings. These require us to think, to exercise faith, to work, to struggle at times and to act. Seldom does the whole answer to a decisively important matter or complex problem come all at once. More often, it comes a piece at a time, without the end in sight.

  Richard G. Scott

  Struggle, Inspiration, Exercise

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• For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
  Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Brother, Children, Grateful

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• 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 are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.

  Freya Stark

  Weed, Flower, Thinking

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• But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.346

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• Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

  Rebecca Ruter Springer

  Love, Life, Deeds

  Rebecca Ruter Springer (2009). “My Dream of Heaven: A Nineteenth Century Spiritual Classic”, p.21, Harrison House Publishers

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• It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

  Mark Twain

  Hinduism, Inconvenient

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.5631, Delphi Classics

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• Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

  Morning, Horse, Memories

  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”

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• A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

  Thomas Merton

  Sense Of Humor, Theologian, Pious

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.40, Liturgical Press

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