Quotes About Gentleness

His eyes fill with tears, his deep gentleness returns to him. He goes to her and lifts her from the floor to the chair. Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart filled with pity.–God forgives us, he says. Who am I not to forgive? Let us pray.

There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.

Only his step awoke her – not that it was loud, for Giovanni went on tiptoe. There was no special reason for it, except that he was her son.

Vengan a mí todos los que andan agobiados con trabajos, y cargas, que yo los aliviaré. 29 Tomen mi yugo sobre ustedes, y aprendan de mí, que soy manso, y humilde de corazón; y hallarán el reposo para sus almas. 30 Porque suave es mi yugo, y ligero el peso mío. 12

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

greet the day gently and with utmost care.

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Life is an egg you have to be patient and careful with it or it will break.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.

Ever since then, I've done what I could to be pleasant and quiet, making myself as small and unseen as possible.

Richard and I always called you the punisher. We never had to discipline you. Not like we did Hermione or Polly. Because you were so hard on yourself. If there's anything I want for you now, as a mother, even if I don't 'deserve' it is: I want you to be gentle. I want you to have compassion. For yourself and everyone. It's what every parent wants. If their any good. Which maybe I wasn't...

There's an openness to his face, an innocence—a certain kind of niceness. It's the niceness that touches my heart the most.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.

Don't move," he breathed, softer than ever. Logan slowly wrapped his fingers around my hand.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.

Christ's whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

Odgar loved her enough, God knows. It was liking, and liking the body, and introducing the body, and persuading, and taking chances, and never frightening, and assuming about the other person, and always taking never asking, and gentleness and liking, and making liking and happiness, and joking and making people not afraid. And making it all right afterwards. It wasn't loving. Loving was frightening.

She was angry at Ezra Pound because he had sat down too quickly on a small, fragile and, doubtless, uncomfortable chair, that it is quite possible he had been given on purpose, and had either cracked or broken it. That he was a great poet and a gentle and generous man and could have accommodated himself in a normal-size chair was not considered.

Gentleness isn't always a virtue." He leaned on the counter, staring out the window into the dark. "The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

Hard" isn't the same as "mean".