Gentle Quotes - Page 5

• Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Thank You, Strong, Children

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.158, Turner Publishing Company

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

  Carl Sandburg

  Inspirational, Patience, Nature

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Animal, Compassion

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

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• Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts;
  There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy,
  The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares;
  There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars,
  Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul;
  Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude.
  Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Stars, Heart, Sea

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• Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

  Keiko Fukuda

  Beautiful, Strong, Kind

  Keiko Fukuda (1973). “Born for the Mat: A Kodokan Kata Textbook for Women”

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• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Garden

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• With lacquerware there is an extra beauty in that moment between removing the lid and lifting the bowl to the mouth, when one gazes at the still, silent liquid in the dark depths of the bowl, its colour hardly differing from that of the bowl itself. What lies within the darkness one cannot distinguish, but the palm senses the gentle movements of the liquid, vapour rises from within, forming droplets on the rim, and the fragrance carried upon the vapour brings a delicate anticipation ... a moment of mystery, it might almost be called, a moment of trance.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Lying, Dark, Mouths

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• The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Demand, Path, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.308, Stanford University Press

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• The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

  Plato

  Hate, Heart, Men

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• Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Love, Caring, Blessing

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• I want a strong man, but a gentle one. And, most unlikely of all, but most essential, I want a man with a capacity for love - to give it generously and accept it joyously. I also want somebody who, when I say, "Let's call it quits," won't hang on; who'll say, "All right, it was fun while it lasted. So long and good luck."

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Strong, Fun, Good Luck

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• A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Prayer, Missing

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.

  Sue Thoele

  Encouragement, Believe, Live Life

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  May the passion to be all that God wants you to be sweep across your soul like a gentle breeze.

  T. D. Jakes

  Passion, Soul, May

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• Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

  Willie Nelson

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• There is going to be an awakening energy, a remembering and understanding. A lot of very simple revelations will move through individuals during the seminar. It's a very gentle, but powerful and empowering, process suitable for everybody who comes to this process.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Powerful, Moving, Simple

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Hate, Air, Envy

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.196, Univ of California Press

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• Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Disappointment, Hands, Darkness

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Past, Doors

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• Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love

  Kid Cudi

  Drug, Heavy

  Song: Scott Mescudi vs. The World, Album: Man On The Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager, 2010

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• The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  George Santayana

  Life, Kindness, Philosophy

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• Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and a subdued tone.

  Mary B. Harris

  Moving, Ears, World

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• Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
  That it can alter all the course of kind.

  Edmund Spenser

  Mind, Kind, Power Of Love

  Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin”, p.162

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