Gentle Quotes - Page 11

• ...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Night, Sleep, Looks

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• I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Suffering, Fancy, Notion

  "Preludes" l. 48 (1917)

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• El mundo es duro y cruel. Nadie sabe por qué estamos aquí, y nadie sabe adónde vamos. Debemos ser muy humildes. Debemos ver la belleza de la tranquilidad. Debemos ir por la vida tan discretamente que el destino no se fije en nosotros. Y busquemos el amor de la gente sencilla e ignorante. Su ignorancia es mejor que todo nuestro conocimiento. Seamos silenciosos, contentos en nuestro pequeño rincón, mansos y gentiles como ellos. Esa es la sabiduría de la vida.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humilde, Ignorancia, Destino

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). "The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection", p.1377, eBookIt.com.

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• Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

  William Saroyan

  Nice, Kids, Thinking

  William Saroyan (1994). “Fresno Stories (New Directions Bibelot)”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• ...esperó hasta que ella y mi abuelo Anthel acababan de llegar de su luna de miel, y entonces se sentó con él y le dijo lo siguiente: "Cariño, sé que te gusta tomar una copa, y eso está bien, pero te advierto que no soy tu criada ni tu saco de boxeo, y si alguna vez me levantas la mano será mejor que me mates. Porque si no, esperaré a que te duermas, te coseré a la cama y te mataré a golpes con una sartén". Hasta que murió, me han dicho, mi abuelo fue un hombre amable.

  Haven Kimmel

  Hogar, Hombres, Manos

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• Mantengamos el valor y tratemos de ser pacientes y amables. Y no nos importe ser excéntricos, y hagamos distinción entre el bien y el mal.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mal, Mente, Intentar

  Vincent van Gogh (1976). "Mi vida y mi amor son uno: citas de las cartas de Vincent Van Gogh a su hermano Theo", Blue Mountain Press

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• Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Love Is, Clouds

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Kindness, Soul

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• 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.

  Libba Bray

  Prayer, Branches, Down And

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Powerful, Book

  Yann Martel Canongate Books (2007). "La vida de Pi (Ilustrada): Deluxe Illustrated Edition", p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Una revolución no es una cena, ni escribir un ensayo, ni pintar un cuadro, ni bordar. No puede ser tan refinada, tan pausada y gentil, tan templada, amable, cortés, comedida y magnánima. Una revolución es una insurrección, un acto de violencia por el que una clase derroca a otra.

  Mao Zedong

  Partido, Escritura, Revolución China

  Mao Zedong (2017). "Citas del Presidente Mao Tse-tung (El pequeño libro rojo) y otras obras", p.13, Lulu.com.

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fiancée.

  Sigmund Freud

  Girl, Princess, Kissing

  Sigmund Freud (1975). “Cocaine papers”

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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

  Verano, primavera, otoño

  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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• Si dejé caer una lágrima sobre tu mano, ¡que la marchite! Si te dijera una palabra suave, ¡que te ensordezca! Si te toqué con mis labios, ¡que el contacto sea veneno para ti! ¡Maldición sobre este techo que me dio cobijo! Pena y vergüenza sobre tu cabeza. Ruina sobre todo lo que te pertenece.

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Sorrow, Tears

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

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• And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Kindness, Loneliness, Eye

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.224, Random House

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• They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

  Toni Morrison

  Summer, Girlfriend, Laughter

  Toni Morrison (1987). "Sula"

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• Una sola lluvia suave hace que la hierba sea más verde. Así nuestras perspectivas mejoran con la afluencia de pensamientos mejores. Seríamos dichosos si viviéramos siempre en el presente y aprovecháramos cada accidente que nos ocurriera.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Blessed, Shade

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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  Hay tres cosas que todos los sabios temen: el mar en tempestad, una noche sin luna y la ira de un hombre gentil.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Vida, Sabio, Sabiduría

  "El miedo del sabio". Libro de Patrick Rothfuss, www.abebooks.com. 1 de marzo de 2011.

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• Lo he escrito antes y no me avergüenzo de escribirlo de nuevo. Sin Wodehouse no estoy seguro de ser ni la décima parte de lo que soy hoy, sea lo que sea. En mi adolescencia, sus escritos me despertaron a las posibilidades del lenguaje. Sus ritmos, tropos, trucos y manierismos están muy dentro de mí. Pero más que eso, me enseñó algo sobre la buena naturaleza. Basta con ser benigno, con ser amable, con ser divertido, con ser bondadoso.

  Stephen Fry

  Adolescente, Escribir, Años

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• Se ha dicho que las grandes ideas vienen al mundo tan suavemente como las palomas. Tal vez entonces, si escuchamos con atención, oigamos en medio del alboroto de los imperios y las naciones, un tenue batir de alas, la suave agitación de la vida y la esperanza. Algunos dirán que esta esperanza reside en una nación; otros, en un hombre. Yo creo más bien que es despertada, reavivada, alimentada, por millones de individuos solitarios cuyas obras niegan cada día las fronteras y las más crudas implicaciones de la historia.

  Albert Camus

  Mentir, Creer, Hombres

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• Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

  Lydia Millet

  Clouds, Ideas, Sound

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