Gentle Quotes

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.

Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

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 .

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing.

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.

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

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

See her gentle sway, a wave on the ocean could never move that way.

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.

May the ability to see many points view keep us gentle.

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.

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.

She's soft and she's gentle and sweet as can be, and if Sharmon needs squeezin', then leave it to me.

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

I was a fitness fiasco - until I found Pilates . . . It's been the most gentle on my body I'm longer and leaner and much more graceful. I can honestly say it's changed my body - and my life.

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Hell yes! Gentle birth’s got to be good for something!

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.

There is no pain quite like that of a broken heart. But a broken heart is an open heart. When we allow ourselves to be broken, a gentle transformation takes place.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.