Gentleness Quotes - Page 12

• I often don't go to sleep and work through the night. I can't seem to do my vocal takes if there's light outside. There's a gentleness to the night that leads me in my stride.

  Jamie Woon

  Sleep, Night, Light

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2011.

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• Be patient and gentle with yourself as you continue to learn new ways of eating and living. There is no need for hard-and-fast rules or white-knuckle determination. Keep leaning forward into the positive changes you are making, and then apply that same gentleness to your family and community.

  Kathy Freston

  Determination, Character, White

  "Interview: Kathy Freston on Going – and STAYING – Vegan!". Interview with Emma Larocque, www.veganmainstream.com. August 8, 2012.

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• The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

  Hugh Prather

  Simple, Simplicity, Quality

  Hugh Prather (2002). “How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy”, p.230, Conari Press

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• The only thing that I can personally turn to is compassion, gentleness, a willingness to allow myself to be angry instead of like why am I so angry. It's so embarrassing. I've got to let this go. I'm not going to be a good person if I walk around angry like this.

  Laura Dern

  Compassion, Good Person, Embarrassing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them and I think when we debate, we should do so in a collegial fashion, with a great deal of gentleness and humbleness, recognizing that we can learn from one another. Again, even with people who have moved over from the Kingdom of Christ to the kingdom of the cults, we need to treat them with love and with gentleness and with a heart to restore them to proper life and doctrine.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Fashion, Heart, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Greek, Persuasion

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• Now, what is Jesus Christ? The fruit of the spirit is a good example. Jesus is total love, total joy, total peace, total patient, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Self, Joy

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Eye

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32

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• I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.

  Saladin

  Heart, Men, Kindliness

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• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

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• Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Kindness, Animal, Reason

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• Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Book, Winning, Romance

  Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspiring, Letting Go, Yoga

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind and body. The word flexible however never means weakness but something more like adaptability and openmindedness. Gentleness always overcomes strength.

  Kyuzo Mifune

  Strength, Mean, Free Spirit

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• You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Life, Substitutes

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Mar 13, 2017

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• We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

  Richard Siken

  Stars, Hero, Violence

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• You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.

  Thomas Hardy

  Believe, Childhood, Half

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• This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.

  Emily Giffin

  Insecure, Vulnerable, Reason

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.289, Macmillan

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• When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind. Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still. Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented. Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world. Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention. For this total attention, this soft and pure consciousness that we are, is nothing but Love itself.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Fighting, Creating

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Patience and gentleness is power.

  Leigh Hunt

  Influence

  Leigh Hunt (1818). “Foliage; or Poems original and translated”, p.132

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• Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long. . . . This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.

  Frederick Denison Maurice

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

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• In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

  Roger Ascham

  Children, Learning, Love Is

  Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.201

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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are 'love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness,temperance: against such there is no law' (Gal. 5:22-23).

  James E. Faust

  Love, Lying, Gifts Of The Spirit

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