Gentle Quotes - Page 33

• It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Hurt, Mind, Stressed

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

  Johnny Tillotson

  Ocean, Moving, Way

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• Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Butterfly, Love Is

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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

  Charlie Walker

  Sweet, Needs, Ifs

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

  Dan Fogelberg

  Family, Mean, Hands

  Song: Leader of the band

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Knowing Who You Are, Knights, Monsters

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• It is a holy blessing to be born with the exquisite qualities of a daughter of God. Women of God, both old and young, are spiritual and sensitive, tender and gentle. They have a kind, nurturing nature. This is your inheritance. Never belittle the gifts God has given to you. Develop the divinity that is within you.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Spiritual, Daughter, Blessing

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• In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

  Van Morrison

  Religious, Tree, Religion

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• Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

  Dolly Parton

  Revenge, Hate, Iron

  Song: Evening Shades

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• Only eliminating all pains in the ass the real mild and gentle man can live in peace.

  William C. Brown

  Pain, Real, Italian

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• I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

  Nikki Reed

  Yesterday, Stories, Way

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• 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.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mother, Father, Nice

  "Alexander McCall Smith: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Meditation

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• That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
  To have no home in the present.
  And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
  Of the poor hours with eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Wish, Longing

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

  Hozier

  Innocence, Sin

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• Jiu-jitsu is the gentle art. It's the art where a small man (or woman is going to
  prove to you, no matter how strong you are, no matter how mad you get,
  that you're going to have to accept defeat. Thats what Brazilian
  Jiu-jitsu is.

  Saulo Ribeiro

  Art, Strong, Men

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• So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Wise, Kings

  John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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

  Christian Harrison

  Life, Tree, What Is Life

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• Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Discipline, Gentleness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Vices

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.341

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• Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.

  Denise Linn

  Inspiring, Powerful, Live Life

  Denise Linn (1995). “Sacred Space”, Wellspring/Ballantine

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• A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."

  Gary Smalley

  Humility, Keys, Expression

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• A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Son, Flames

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.398

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