Gentle Quotes - Page 9

• Compared to Americans, Canadians are often more gentle in their approach to things. They're much more apologetic. There's less room for conflict.

  Joseph Boyden

  Rooms, Conflict, Apologetic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And that the best things that grownups do, we do for the children, and that they inspire great good in us. I also want them to remember that the world is intertwined and that 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.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Children, Impact, Inspire

  "The First Sister Reflects on Family from Motherhood to Brother Barack". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 3, 2011.

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Stars, Rain

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• Today, because I want to be gentle on my back, I listen to jazz.

  Eric Ripert

  Want, Today, Jazz

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some meat eaters defend meat eating by pointing out that it is natural: in the wild, animals eat one another. The animals that end up on our breakfast, lunch, and dinner plates, however, aren't those who normally eat other animals. The animals we exploit for food are not the lions and tigers and bears of the world. For the most part, we eat the gentle vegan animals. However, on today's farms, we actually force them to become meat eaters by making them eat feed containing the rendered remains of other animals, which they would never eat in the wild.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Meat Eating, Lunch

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Heal Itself, Effort, Meditation

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• Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society.

  Robin Lim

  Mother, Baby, Believe

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love for me is innocence, honesty, compassion, trust, loyalty, a gentle summer breeze, sunshine, a great cuddle.

  A. J. McLean

  Summer, Loyalty, Honesty

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• As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Have Faith, Tobias

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.

  George Saunders

  Mean, People, Seems

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Able, Hot

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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• Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Art, Soul, Genius

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• Malick is so far on the other side of the spectrum in terms of his character. Malick is a complete recluse, and not at all driven by ego or championing who he is as an individual. It's all about the art. Whereas Herzog is constantly placing himself into the engine. Malick is such a gentle poet.

  Sam Pressman

  Art, Character, Ego

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.

  Kevin Biegel

  Thinking, Credit, Littles

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• If you look at the history of demagoguery and fascism, it always happens when there are two things. It requires a gentle populace to allow it to happen, whether through laziness, ignorance or ineptitude, but it also requires a very angry, dissatisfied section of the populace who want egregiously simple answers to very complicated problems.

  Moby

  Ignorance, Simple, Two

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would far rather add a character who generates strong feelings than someone who just kind of floats along, generating medium-warmth smiles of gentle affirmation.

  Michael Schur

  Strong, Character, Feelings

  "‘Parks and Recreation’ Mike Schur on the eventful season finale". Interview With Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. April 24, 2014.

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• 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.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Impact, World, Earth

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• The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus . As we do our part rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude, God does his part. He bestows upon us the peace of God. Note, this is not a peace from God. Our Father gives us the very peace of God. He downloads the tranquility of the throne room into our world, resulting in an inexplicable calm. We should be worried, but we aren't. We should be upset, but we're comforted.

  Max Lucado

  Gratitude, Jesus, Father

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• With each spring comes new life, energy and green growth. In summer comes the sun, warm, kind and enduring. Fall brings its canvas of color in careful, gentle change. Winter brews into faithful strength, beauty in pure white. And then comes you. You are all that Nature offers, a blessing, a gift.. You are the fifth season.

  Jason F. Wright

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Jason F. Wright (2007). “The Wednesday Letters: A Novel”

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• 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.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Strong, Fighting, Skins

  Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.112, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.

  Chris Abani

  Philosophy, Compassion, Simple

  "On humanity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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• Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Rain, Writing

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Dombey and Son”, p.488, Xist Publishing

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• What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

  Chris Abani

  Simple, Compassion, World

  "On humanity". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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