...She doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically.

Of course you did.' I took a step closer. 'You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

We are sisters. We are brothers. We are family.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

A gentle soul is spiritual.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.