gentle living Quotes

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Do you cherish your humble and silky life?

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.

Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

I live very gently.

Walk lightly through life.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.