Quotes About Gentleness

Vida's definitely a beautiful and peaceful girl.

I feel I must have been an elephant in a former life. I love the sensitivity and peaceful force of these creatures.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Never hurt other feelings if you cannot give them little love.

Adopt the pace of tenderness and know that its secret is compassion and forgiveness.

And remember that tenderness is one of the wonderful art of immortality.

Reminiscence rides a serene mare with a fluffy duke at the bridle.

A man need not necessarily be ugly or poor to be cheated of his wife's love, but he is sure to lose it if he is too gentle.

La sombra, cubierta por un velo, sigue a la luz en secreta mansedumbre, con pasos silenciosos de amor.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

Jesus was humble when He walked this earth. He had all power, yet used all meekness.

I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.

For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.

It's not my nature to dominate and bully.

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them.

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets it in its constellation, and gives the measure of distance into its hand? Who makes a child's death out of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves it inside its round mouth like the core of a shining apple? Killers are easy to grasp. But this: death, the whole of death, before life, to hold it so softly, and not live in anger, cannot be expressed.

And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend.

The leaves are falling, falling as from far, As if far gardens in the skies were dying; They fall, and never seem to be denying. And in the night the earth, a heavy ball, Into a starless solitude must fall. We all are falling. My own hand no less Than all things else; behold, it is in all. Yet there is One who, utter gentleness, Holds all this falling in His hands to bless.

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

Her face was slender and milk-white, and in it was a kind of gentle hunger that touched over everything with tireless curiosity. It was a look, almost, of pale surprise; the dark eyes were so fixed to the world that no moved escaped them.