Gentle Quotes - Page 32

• Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Kindness, Compassion, Evil People

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• IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
  She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion,
  Can never die, for Love forbids her death.
  Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion,
  And breathed upon her his immortal breath.
  On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying,
  Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain.
  Where the white flag with the red cross is flying,
  There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Fashion, Pain, Lying

  Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

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• Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

  Thomas Boswell

  Summer, Sports, Baseball

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

  Osamu Dazai

  Beautiful, Sweet, Long

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

  George MacDonald

  Brother, Children, Father

  George MacDonald (2007). “Unspoken Sermons”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

  Dodie Smith

  Sweet, Flower, Past

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.183, Random House

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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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• There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.

  Andrew Davidson

  Loss, Air, Forever

  Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.48, Canongate Books

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• The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Sweet, Morning, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.52

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• The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Memories

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Oliver Twist”, p.199, Pan Macmillan

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Hammers, Pace

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Book, School

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• Tantric Zen is more suited for this age that we live in. It give you rules, but in a gentle way. It's not as demanding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Age

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Dragons, Expression

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• Sarah Jane Smith was everybody's hero when I was younger, and as brave and funny and brilliant as people only ever are in stories. But many years later, when I met the real Sarah Jane - Lis Sladen herself - she was exactly as any child ever have wanted her to be. Kind and gentle and clever; and a ferociously talented actress, of course, but in that perfectly English unassuming way.

  Steven Moffat

  Children, Clever, Real

  "Elisabeth Sladen, 'Doctor Who''s Sarah Jane, Dies at 63" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. April 19, 2011.

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• A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

  Jon Gordon

  Wise, Dog, Mean

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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• Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Children, Teaching, Persuasive

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• The disowned parts of ourselves are what get in the way of us having the relationships we long for, the careers we don't know how to create, and the goals we want to achieve. It is by getting in touch with ALL the parts of ourselves - by having a gentle dialogue with all the "selves" we have inside - that we integrate them into a more comfortable, peaceful way of being with ourselves.

  Shakti Gawain

  Careers, Self, Long

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Careless of books, yet having felt the power
  Of Nature, by the gentle agency
  Of natural objects, led me on to feel
  For passions that were not my own, and think
  (At random and imperfectly indeed)
  On man, the heart of man, and human life.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Book, Passion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

  Frances Wright

  War, Evil, Feelings

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.107

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• All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Blood, Law

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…”, p.1544, e-artnow

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• They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

  Plato

  Friendship, Enemy, Dangerous

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.196

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• The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Men, House

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.129, e-artnow

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• Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
  Of your loves couplement:
  And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
  With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

  Edmund Spenser

  Heart, Joy, May

  Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier, Norris Deck (1866). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...”, p.280

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• Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
  A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
  Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Breathing, Play

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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