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A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. -- George Herbert
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. -- Saint Francis de Sales
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. -- William Hazlitt
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. -- Mo Udall
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. -- C. S. Lewis
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. -- Kent Nerburn
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild... -- Charles Wesley
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. -- Jack Dempsey
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke. -- Alexander Pope
Gentle time will heal our sorrows. -- Sophocles
Gentle to others, to himself severe. -- Samuel Rogers
Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails. -- Aesop
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason. -- Kenneth Patchen
Gentle he would be, denied he would not. -- Diana Gabaldon
Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love -- Kid Cudi
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine. -- Edmund Spenser
Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind. -- Bryant McGill
Hell yes! Gentle birthâ??s got to be good for something! -- Donald McCaig
Gentle in what you do, Firm in how you do it -- Buck Brannaman
He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender. -- Gabrielle Zevin
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. -- Ambrose Bierce
Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord. -- Radhanath Swami
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. -- Washington Gladden
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee. -- Charles Wesley
Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so divine as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength. -- Ralph Washington Sockman
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell -- Teresa Medeiros
Gentle birth, protecting mother and baby, is a solution that I believe will result in positive change for our society. -- Robin Lim
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan MacDonnell" -- Teresa Medeiros
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Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river. -- Frederick Marryat
All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. -- Dorothy Parker
Breaking the cycle takes time. Be Patient and Gentle with yourself. Set long term goals. And be persistent! Remember to Stretch, Laugh and be Unshakable! -- Sathya Sai Baba
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. -- Charlotte Bronte
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. -- Duncan Sheik
The Past Is Gone, And Cannot Harm You Any More & While The Future Is Fast Coming For You, It Always Flinches First. And Settles In As The Gentle Present. -- Cecil Palmer
Take the gentle path. -- George Herbert
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. -- Benjamin Franklin
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. -- Anjelica Huston
Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side? -- Chris LeDoux
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. -- Helen Rowland
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. -- Aeschylus
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. -- Henri Nouwen
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. -- George Herbert
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. -- Frank A. Clark
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. -- Jim Elliot
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson. -- Mercedes McCambridge
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. -- Mary MacLane
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. -- Frank Muir
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all. -- Catherine the Great
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. -- Frederick Douglass
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state. -- Rene Char
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfather had a spirited, humorous personality, my grandmother is gentle and poised. -- Kristina McMorris
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. -- Robert Kennedy
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. -- Laozi
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -- Joseph Addison
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. -- Henry David Thoreau
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights. -- Kim Novak
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. -- Jean Genet
In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired - but I don't want you to miss this." -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. -- Henry Williamson
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. -- Charles Dickens
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. -- Douglas MacArthur
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered. -- William S. Burroughs
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. -- Max Lucado
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle. -- Naomi Wolf
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. -- Paul Ryan
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. -- Laozi
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure..... Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle , and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? -- Herman Melville
People love gentle larceny. -- Dan Aykroyd
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts. -- Charles Lamb
Cows are gentle, interesting animals. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Be gentle with the earth. -- Dalai Lama
Be gentle with the young. -- Juvenal
A gentle soul is spiritual. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What a gentle soul you are? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love makes all hard hearts gentle. -- George Herbert
What a gentle soul you are~? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be strong, Be gentle, Be beautiful. -- Keiko Fukuda
Fire is never a gentle master -- Proverb
Love has a hundred gentle ends. -- Leonora Speyer
Be humble, be gentle, be kind. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A gentle answer turns away wrath. -- Gary Chapman
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I am actually a very gentle person. -- Charlie Trotter
Be gentle and kind all the time. -- Heather Wolf
He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe. -- George Herbert
Be gentle, kind and loving to yourself. -- Debasish Mridha
Be gentle with everything in your life. -- Bryan Kest
Only the gentle are ever really strong. -- James Dean
Always be humble and gentle with one another. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. -- Edmund Spenser
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. -- Dante Alighieri
Children learn through gentle direction and persuasive teaching. -- Thomas S. Monson
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi. -- Joss Whedon
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. -- Max Ehrmann
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.' -- Petra Kelly
It takes strength to be gentle and kind. -- Steven Morrissey
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen. -- William Shakespeare
Do not go gentle into that good night. -- Dylan Thomas
A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life. -- John Milton
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart. -- Felicity Kendal
Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow. -- Mark Helprin
If you possess a gentle spirit will move mountains. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient. -- Mark Twain
What is more gentle than a wind is summer? -- John Keats
To be gentle is the test of a lady. -- Owen Feltham
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin -- Hozier
There is great force hidden in a gentle command. -- George Herbert

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