Quotes About Gentleness

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

If you have a choice, choose kindness.

Be loving and kind all the time.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. —LEO BUSCAGLIA

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

The little girl's gentle touch struck an inner chord in his lonely old heart.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through the daily acceptance of the limits and faults of each other and in mutual openness. It is this acceptance in and through gentleness, kindness, forgiveness, confidence and the desire to see shining in the other the warm light of the Spirit of God that becomes the great sign of the merciful love of God for man and His incessant forgiveness.

He came bearing not a sword but a candle.

She reached up and touched his face. He allowed her. She explored his warm features. He had a kind face—she could feel that he did.

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life...

He doesn't like making others uncomfortable." -Helen to Sophia about Alistair

When at last they rose by some unspoken male accord, she noticed with a pang that Indio came only to Caliban's waist. The man towered over the boy, so much taller and broader that his gentleness was all the more moving as a result. They walked to the pond's bank and Indio launched his boat. Caliban restrained Daffodil from jumping in after. This man was not at all like Kitty's husband. Not at

His hand stilled on her hair and he said, very carefully and calmly, "There is never any excuse for a man to hit a woman—any woman—let alone one he professes to love." She was quiet a moment, just basking in his gentle strength.

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

So we will not shake the box to find out if its contents are breakable.

And Mr. Wilkins, much pleased with her, though it was still quite early in the day, a time when caresses are sluggish, pinched her ear.

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.

I am so fragile I can't speak.

Some people are so sweet you can't hold the thought of them and trouble in the same mind at the same time.

Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands.