Gentle Touch Quotes

• As awareness recedes into the deep, as when it falls asleep, everything seemingly ends. All that it takes is a gentle touch to your body; meaning has moved and meaning is again aware, knowing, seeing, and if it is home, meeting and communing.

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  John de Ruiter

  Fall   Home   Gentle Touch  

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• Understanding isn't learned from punishment and anger. An iron has no gentle touch, and love ain't learned from hate.

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  Dolly Parton

  Revenge   Hate   Iron  

  Song: Evening Shades

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational   Positive   New Year  

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• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Time   Nature   Gentle Touch  

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

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  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship   Pain   True Friend  

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.

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  J. Boone

  Dog   Integrity   Book  

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• Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

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  Rod McKuen

  Eye   Gentle Touch   Voice  

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

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  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness   Holiday   Opportunity  

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