Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.
To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
You will say these are very small sins. . . [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy. . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
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.
She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.
Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.
We are learning to work with intuition, which actually is Soul giving us gentle guidance to make our life better.
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.