Gentle Quotes - Page 31

• I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

  Nikki Reed

  Yesterday, Stories, Way

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• My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Father, Nice

  "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

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• That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
  To have no home in the present.
  And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
  Of the poor hours with eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Wish, Longing

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

  Hozier

  Innocence, Sin

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• Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
  prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
  that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
  Jiu-jitsu is.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Strong, Men

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• So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Wise, Kings

  John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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• What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

  Christian Harrison

  Life, Tree, What Is Life

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• Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Discipline, Gentleness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.

  Denise Linn

  Inspiring, Powerful, Live Life

  Denise Linn (1995). “Sacred Space”, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."

  Gary Smalley

  Humility, Keys, Expression

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Son, Flames

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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• A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Circles, Sound

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams. His pow'rs the most voluptuously dissolve In soft repose; on him the balmy dews Of Sleep with double nutriment descend.

  John Armstrong

  Dream, Sleep, Deities

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• He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

  Robert Herrick

  Sea, Gale, Sail

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Regret, Tired, Thinking

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• Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Vices

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.341

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• Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

  Abraham Cowley

  Morning, Wine, Self

  Abraham Cowley (1772). “Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].”, p.148

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• Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

  Frederick Marryat

  Ocean, Rivers, Water

  Frederick Marryat (1873). “Jacob Faithful”, p.1

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• Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Simple, Vanity, Years

  Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.32

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• Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Prayer, Heart, Support

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• What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

  Neil Young

  Beauty, Air, Shining

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• See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

  Edwin Muir

  Bible, Journey, Rocks

  EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

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