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Quotes About Gentle

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If she is to have a fall," said Mrs. Almond, with a gentle laugh, "we must spread as many carpets as we can." And she carried out this idea by showing a great deal of motherly kindness to the girl.
~ Henry James
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
I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.
~ Nikki Reed
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
~ Emma Donoghue
I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments.
~ Jane Fonda
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
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~ Thomas de Quincey
I had auditioned for 'Lagaan.' That's where I met Aamir for the first time. He was a superstar; I was a nobody. Yet, he treated me gently and affectionately. He put me at ease completely.
~ Amisha Patel
I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today.
~ Hubert Martin
Be gentle, confident and action-oriented. Remember, your actions will make a difference.
~ Debasish Mridha
Cooper got up from his desk and followed the butterfly around the room until it came within reach. He cupped his hands around it gently, feeling its wing-tips tickling his fingers for a moment before became still. 'Hey up, Ben's made an arrest,' said Gavin Murfin. 'Do you want the handcuffs, Ben?
~ Stephen Booth
I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low;I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe."
~ Stephen Collins Foster
It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
~ Stephen Morrissey
Life is a school of the spirit, Aidan," Ruadh intoned with gentle insistence. "Learning is our soul's requirement, and suffering our most persuasive teacher.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have A Fun- Filled Day.
~ Stephen Wright
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30).
~ Steve McVey
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
~ Anjelica Huston
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
~ Bryan Procter
I like to cook things very slowly.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
The air was cool and wet and delicious to breathe: a slow, fine, soaking rain, a farmer's rain, gentle on the roof.
~ Michael Shaara
when the down on the nape of her neck
~ Michael Swanwick
Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.
~ Milan Kundera
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.
~ Richard Bach