#gentle

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. ↗

— Joan Miró

#gentleman #life #modest #life

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security. ↗

— Vimala McClure

#love #mothering #respect #security #love

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#gentleness #god #identity #love #self

You are a bit like that painting, Minnow. Remember how lovingly and carefully formed you are. Your thoughts, your talents, your memories, your mistakes.... they all make the complete canvas of you. Even though others may mistake your worth, you must never value yourself any less. ↗

— Michelle Marcos

#romantic #love

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective. ↗

— Paul Anka

#country #gentler #good #lends #pace

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed. ↗

— Norman Cota

#being #gentlemen #go #inland #killed

No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. ↗

— Richard Heber

#borrowers #copies #gentleman #show #three

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach. ↗

— James Lind

#day #different #different times #drank #each