Gentle Quotes

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason.

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.

The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

Celestial spirit that doth roll; The heart's sepulchral stone away, Be this our resurrection day, The singing Easter of the soul - O gentle Master of the Wise, Teach us to say: "I will arise."

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

I thought he might hit me over the head, knowing that he wanted to do the whole show. He was young, ambitious, and a huge talent. But he was also very gentle, and we got along fine.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

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

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Those who have hardened, have a covenant with Death. Those who remain gentle are conjoined with Life.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.

He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.