Gentle Quotes - Page 6

• Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
  The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
  Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

  Ovid

  Love, Fire, Flames

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• An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Able, Spirit

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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• O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

  William Wordsworth

  Mind, Silent, Stores

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.364, e-artnow

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• Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Giving, Alms

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• Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Forgiving, Debt, Failing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.121

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• The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature.
  [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

  Ovid

  Men, Gentleness

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• To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

  Sophocles

  Anger, Judgment

  Sophocles, Robert POTTER (Prebendary of Norwich.) (1813). “The Tragedier of Sophocles; Translated by R. Potter. A New Edition”, p.217

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• In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Light, Hands, Order

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• Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.102, Macmillan

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• And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

  Lord Byron

  Lonely, Wind, Lyric Poetry

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.948, Delphi Classics

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• The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Design, Meek

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of Matthew”, p.142, Bible Study Books

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• Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

  Joseph Joubert

  Education, Lax, Cold

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Forgiving, Shame

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 18, 2011

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• This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs.
  The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry,
  the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us
  love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand,
  storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.

  W. S. Di Piero

  Rain, Storm, Chemistry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Summer, Home

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of the orthodox academics. Yet he, at the same time, is more encouraging than they, for he releases hope as well as terror from Pandora's box, while they preach only the gloomy doctrine that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

  Joan Robinson

  Reality, Air, Giving

  "An Essay on Marxian Economics". Book by Joan Robinson, Chapter I, Introduction, p. 4-5, 1966.

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• Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Awkward, Cameras

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• If Nightcloud were a gentle, loving cat like Leafpool, or feisty and warmhearted like Squirrelflight, it would be easier to feel sorry for her.

  Erin Hunter

  Sorry, War, Cat

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• Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.

  Tsutomu Ohshima

  Strong, Artist, Thinking

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• What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Caring

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.128, Verso

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• High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in loving these, in displaying to the utmost of the painter's power such loveliness as is in them, and directing the thoughts of others to them by winning art, or gentle emphasis.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Winning, Lovely

  John Ruskin (1859). “Modern Painters: (pt.4) Modern painters of many things”, p.35

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• Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Character, Mean

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• She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Air, Wings

  John Milton, James Prendeville (1850). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from Addison, Bentley, Bowle ... [et Al.] and Partly Original”, p.246

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• You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Long, People

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• To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to be 100 percent accountable for the quality of your life, which includes the amount of love, joy, and growth you create in your relationships each day. To love is the ability to remain strong, stable, and committed through difficult times, changes, and challenges. It means being gentle, kind, and supportive of your potential, goals, and aspirations.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love, Strong, Mean

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