Gentleness Quotes

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out.

Peter S Beagle

Injurious Personis not the Person who got Hurt,Its the person who Learned.

Fahad Rashiq

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

Pat Conroy

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Bryant McGill

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.

Ellen J. Barrier

only the gentlest hands can brush away tears

John J. Geddes

That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.

Thea Hillman

I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.

Taylor Rhodes

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.

Amanda Mosher

Be gentle, kind and loving as often as you possibly can.

Heather Wolf

There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

Tom Althouse

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

Samael Aun Weor

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

Tom Robbins

May our lives and gentle spirit be evident to all that we are members of God's family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Bryant McGill

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Bryant McGill

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Vimala McClure

SUMMERthe cattails swayand the bamboodances gently intothe brightness ofa happy day.

Tara Estacaan

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

Sanober Khan

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Richard Rohr

Be gentle and humble in heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.

Gayle D. Erwin

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

John Geddes

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

Mignon McLaughlin

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Criss Jami

There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Bryant McGill

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

Bryant McGill

For certain he hath seen all perfectnessFor certain he hath seen all perfectness. Who among other ladies hath seen mine: They that go with her humbly should combine To thank their God for such peculiar grace. So perfect is the beauty of her face That it begets in no wise any sign Of envy, but draws round her a clear line Of love, and blessed faith, and gentleness. Merely the sight of her inakes all things bow: Not she herself alone is holier Than all: but hers, through her, are raised above. From all her acts such lovely graces flow That truly one may never think of her Without a passion of exceeding love.

Dante Alighieri

Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.

Kamand Kojouri

We need to learn to dance more softly.

Nikki Rosen

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Nikki Rosen

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Anna Sewell

We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable.

M.F. Moonzajer

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Shannon L. Alder

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Be gentle and kind all the time.

Heather Wolf

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

Heather Wolf

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

Bryant McGill

The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.

Michael Meade

He'd wanted to - he didn't know. Break bottles. Break windows, crash cars. Burn down the world. Find solace at the bottom of countless more bottles of wine, this time consumed in solitude. In the end he did none of these things; while he knew the shapes and forms of rage and grief, he had, in truth, nothing more than gentleness inside to sustain him.

Michael Montoure

Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!

Mufti Ismail Menk

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

Bryant McGill

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Elizabeth George

No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.

Judy Croome

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage. The man who succumbs to his wife, the mother who succumbs to her daughter, the master who succumbs to his servant, is as often brought to servility by a continual aversion to the giving of pain, by a softness which causes the fretfulness of others to be an agony to himself,—as by any actual fear which the firmness of the imperious one may have produced. There is an inner softness, a thinness of the mind's skin, an incapability of seeing or even thinking of the troubles of others with equanimity, which produces a feeling akin to fear; but which is compatible not only with courage, but with absolute firmness of purpose, when the demand for firmness arises so strongly as to assert itself.

Anthony Trollope

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

Richard Brautigan

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Ralph W Sockman

Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.

Roberto Hogue

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

Shannon L. Alder

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

Kamand Kojouri

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

Ana Claudia Antunes

Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

Bryant McGill

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

Criss Jami

may my touchalways...be tenderas i would strokemother's cheekswhen she cried.

Sanober Khan

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