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Quotes About Gentle

Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference - in our own lives and those of others.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
~ Jean Paul
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
~ Jean Paul
A cat is a peerless poultice.
~ Jean Stafford
Slowly, a gentle, quiet, personal victory of the spirit grows out of her fear and doubt.
~ Elaine N. Aron
To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Outside, it snowed; fat, lazy flakes, drifting with soft intention toward the place they were meant to land.
~ Elizabeth Berg
gentle touch as a way to help them rest and relax. Massage is also proved to stimulate circulation, digestion, and neurological development. It
~ Elizabeth Pantley
Surely the colour of London was an exquisite thing. It was like a pearl that late afternoon, something very gentle and pale, with faint blue shadows. And as for its smell, she doubted, indeed, whether heaven itself could smell better, certainly not so interesting. And anyhow, she said to herself, lifting her head a moment in appreciation, it can't possibly smell more alive .
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The old man's dying was painless and feather-light, all the substance of his once sharp and vigorous mind gone on before; but it was slow. The fading candle flame did not flicker, only dimmed in perfect stillness second by second, so mysteriously that they missed the moment when the last spark withdrew, and only knew he was gone when they began to realise that the prints of age were smoothing themselves out gently from his face.
~ Ellis Peters
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 1 Timothy 3:2–3
~ Alfred Ells
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
~ Alice B. Toklas
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
~ Alice Childress
good morning to you, first faint breeze of unrest
~ Alice Oswald
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
~ Alvin Ailey
I don't often wear perfume, because I am sensitive to smells, but vanilla has a warmth to it, and it's inviting and soft.
~ Tessa Virtue
Hot and humid weather leads to sweat, which takes a longer time to evaporate, and combining that with harsh cleansers isn't exactly a party for your skin. Try a gentle cleanser but something tough enough to remove pore-clogging debris.
~ Paul Nassif
I'm a lovely person, considerate and loving.
~ Craig Revel Horwood
My books are so tame!
~ Sarah Dessen
All of my guy friends are pretty civil and tame.
~ Thomas Middleditch
Maggie smiles at that and says, "Please don't upset her. She's fragile." "I'll be like cotton-candy kisses.
~ Richard Kadrey
The ambassadors of so gentle a Saviour should not be overbearing, setting up themselves in the hearts of people where Christ alone should sit as in his own temple.
~ Richard Sibbes