Gentle Quotes - Page 23

• Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Spiritual, Justice, Zealous

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• Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Spiritual, Blow, Imagination

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• There are many different types of kisses. There's a passionate kiss of farewell - like the kind Rhett gave Scarlett when he went off to war. The kiss of I-can't-really-be-with-you-but-I-want-to-be - like with Superman and Lois Lane. There's the first kiss - one that is gentle and hesitant, warm and vulnerable. And then there's the kiss of possession - which was how Ren kissed me now.

  Colleen Houck

  Sexy, War, Farewell

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• There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

  Shaqiq al-Balkhi

  Wisdom, Regret, Islamic

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• Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

  Bhartrhari

  Rain, Clouds, People

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• The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

  Plato

  Dog, Opposites, People

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• Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner
  but I am never lost:
  there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,
  here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl
  laid on a velvet slab,
  there is the plashing of faces in the aisles
  and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned
  and it is night, and the moon rows over
  the gentle waters of the parking lot.

  Nancy Eimers

  Moon, Night, Water

  Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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• Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

  Aulus Cornelius Celsus

  Music, Fitness, Running

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• In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.

  Theodore J. Forstmann

  Letting Go, Running, Wisdom

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• Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Morning, Kindness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.69

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• I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

  M. Scott Peck

  Running, Spiritual, Kindness

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• We are a gentle angry people
  We are a land of many colors
  We are gay and straight together
  We are a peaceful loving people
  And we are singing, singing for our lives.

  Holly Near

  Gay, Color, Land

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• 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

  Milo

  Nice, Guy, Soul

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

  David Ogilvy

  People, Manners, Treats

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.69, Profile Books

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• If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Book, Character

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• God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sweet, Long, Independence

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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• It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Winning, Wonderful

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.244, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Mean, Men

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• The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

  Samuel Hahnemann

  Disease, Way, Principles

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• These days we don’t have to fit into something other people think we are. We’ve leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I’m a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle — we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mom, Sex, Thinking

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• The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.

  Laurie R. King

  Daughter, Voice, Mind

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• Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.

  Tobias Crisp

  Christian, Father, Medicine

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• But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.

  Homer

  Friendship, Race, Soul

  Homer (2013). “penelopeia, a wife's enduring love”, p.459, Lulu.com

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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• If I profane with my unworthiest hand
  This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
  My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
  To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Hands, Two

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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