Gentleness Quotes

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

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.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

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

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

We will share each other’s burdens with love and kindness.

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

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

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

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

Compassion is an act of love.

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.

Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

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.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

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.

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

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

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

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

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

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

Be gentle and kind all the time.

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

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

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

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

I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

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

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.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face. The eyes that could astutely spot any danger in the area would regard me wonderingly and worshipfully, like I was the most beautiful and amazing woman in the world.

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.

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

The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.

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

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

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.

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

Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.

Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!

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.

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

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

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.

What a gentle soul you are?

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.