Quotes About Gentle

I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something I get from my family.

My lord." Gwenhwyfar's voice was gentle. "You have given no word here for any to either trust or distrust.

True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word "peace." It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind. - 17th Karmapa

What if the task is simply to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature—gentle, compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present? How would this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.

Is my ear sensitive enough to hear even the softest whisper of the Spirit, so that I know what I should do? "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God" (Ephesians 4:30). He does not speak with a voice like thunder—His voice is so gentle that it is easy for us to ignore. And the only thing that keeps our conscience sensitive to Him is the habit of being open to God on the inside.

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

There was a gentle swell to the land here. Not so much that you'd call it rolling—hell, when the land rolled in Minnesota, they called it a mountain range—this was more like the lazy waves on the Pacific when it was bedding down for the night.

Bran was always a deceptive bastard, gentle and mild right up until he ripped your throat out. He had many other fine qualities as well.

Tis the gift to be gentle, 'tis the gift to be fair, 'Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.

If you had let me," he said, "I'd have courted you gently and won your heart." He closed his eyes. "I didn't mean to frighten you.

Remember the story of Beauty and the Beast?" remarked Asil gently. "Go ahead. Take that little bloom. See what happens." "'Beauty and the Beast' is a French fairy tale and you are a mere Spaniard

Cradled in this community whose currency was relational ethics, my stock in myself soared. My value depended on the glorious intangibility, the eloquence invisibility, of my just being part of the collective—and in direct response I grew spacious and happy and gentle.

inches away, quacking softly

Popular, gentle, solitary and eccentric, Wyndham lived with his mother, wore heavy glasses and high-waisted trousers, gave off random murmurs and squeaks, and moved with an amphibian gait.

Gentle. Which people see as weak.

There was a long moment of silence like a tribute given to the dead. Eventually, Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.

He's gentle, which people see as weak. And he's happy, which people see as stupid.

I am calm as a windless winter night.

The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.

Though a "gentle word turns away wrath,"5 it's not fool-proof either, nor does it claim to be. They listen to power and consequences:

The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.

Pierce some part of your nectar-filled form with a pin, and gently enter the piercing.