Gentle Quotes - Page 24

• Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Calling, Half

  Sir Richard Branson (2010). “Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space”, p.46, Random House

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• Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,
  Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.

  George Linley

  Dream, Cheer, Voice

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Love, Simple, Simplicity

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• Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Blessing, Good Woman

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• Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

  Stephen I of Hungary

  Humble, Justice, Catholic

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• The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Pain, Compassion

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• Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.

  Robert Burns

  Sweet, Husband, Thinking

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• Monk was a gentle person, gentle and beautiful, but he was strong as an ox. And if I had ever said something about punching Monk out in front of his face - and I never did - then somebody should have just come and got me and taken me to the madhouse, because Monk could have just picked my little ass up and thrown me through a wall.

  Miles Davis

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

  Samuel Rogers

  Sweet, Time, Memories

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1839). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.13

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• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Lonely, Eye

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• Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

  George Herbert

  Love, Heart, Hard

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

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• Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

  Ovid

  Peace, Strong, Heart

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Laughter, Fall

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• Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Morning, Priorities

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• 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 by returning to itself, winning victories by remaining gentle and yielding, it is softer than anything, and therefore overcomes everything hard.

  Laozi

  Exercise, Winning, Space

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• He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Passion, Home

  Song: Pale September, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
  Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
  So maybe I'll see you there
  We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
  Downtown, things'll be great when you're
  Downtown, don't wait a minute more
  Downtown, everything's waiting for you

  Petula Clark

  Song, Hands, Waiting

  "Song: "Downtown" ("Downtown")". 1965.

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• Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Home, Animal

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• You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.

  Shae-Lynn Bourne

  Valentine, Heart, Forever

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• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

  E. Nesbit

  I Love Him, Cities, Tree

  Edith Nesbit, “Child's Song In Spring”

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Gentle to others, to himself severe.

  Samuel Rogers

  Kindness, Severe

  Samuel Rogers (1827). “Poems ... A new edition”, p.258

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• The church seeks to help form people who can risk being peaceful in a violent world, risk being kind in a competitive world, risk being faithful in an age of cynicism, risk being gentle among those who admire the tough, risk love when it may not be returned, because we have the confidence that in Christ we have been reborn into a new reality.

  John Howard Yoder

  Reality, People, Peaceful

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• 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. They do not glory in victory.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, People, Choices

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