Gentle Quotes - Page 34

• With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Friendship, Sky, Sun

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• And you each gentle animal
  In confidence may bind,
  And make them follow at your call,
  If you are always kind.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Kindness, Animal, May

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.26

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• It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

  Theophile Gautier

  Manners, Irresistible, Prove

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• Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Humility, Pride, Should

  "Song: 'Full of Humility' ('Road To Madinah')". 1998.

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• Can rules or tutors educate
  The semigod whom we await?
  He must be musical,
  Tremulous, impressional,
  Alive to gentle influence
  Of landscape and of sky
  And tender to the spirit-touch
  Of man's or maiden's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories”, p.26

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• Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Wise, Kindness, Mind

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• Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Selfish, Pride

  Ralph Waldo, Emerson, (2013). “Nature - Conduct of Life”, p.191, Read Books Ltd

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• Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.

  Bryan Procter

  Light, Sorrow, Endurance

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• I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Men, Kind, Remembered

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Nature, People, Be Kind

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• Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?

  Malvina Reynolds

  Fall, Rain, Eye

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• We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

  Robert Sirico

  Ideas, People, Ruthless

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• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Sound, Suggestions

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• After the first shock of recognition - a sudden sense of "this is what I'm going to write" - the novel starts to breed by itself; the process goes on solely in the mind, not on paper. I feel a kind of gentle development, an uncurling inside, and I know that the details are there already, that in fact I would see them plainly if I looked closer, but I prefer to wait until what is loosely called inspiration has completed the task for me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

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• Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Honesty, Winning

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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• I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a whisper. The wind vane pointed toward the South Pole. Presently the wind cups ceased their gentle turning as the cold killed the breeze. My frozen breath hung like a cloud overhead. The day was dying, the night was being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it!

  Richard E. Byrd

  Peace, Night, Clouds

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.85, Island Press

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• God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people.

  Francois Fenelon

  Knowledge, Perfect, People

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• Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.

  John of the Cross

  Love, Sweet, Heart

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• When greater perils men inviron, Then women show a front of iron; And, gentle in their manner, they Do bold things in a quiet way.

  Thomas Dunn English

  Appreciation, Men, Iron

  Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”

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• DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Should Have, Wind, Appreciate

  "Padma Lakshmi On Her New Jewelry Line (And The Dos And Don'ts Of Bling!)". Interview with Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. April 30, 2009.

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• I like clothes that exude feminine charms, a gentle style. It's just like being able to match with a dress with an attached hood.

  Daesung

  Clothes, Style, Dresses

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I love the sort of ambivalence of this, the ambiguity of something - being, for instance, in a quite busy Mexican restaurant with one of these very gentle tracks playing I remember as being particularly nice.

  Brian Eno

  Nice, Track, Mexican

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.

  Guy Jenkin

  Writing, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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