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Quotes About Gentleness

Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right."
~ Rajneesh
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
~ Charles de Lint
If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings
~ V.C. Andrews, Forbidden Sister
All doors open to courtesy.
~ Thomas Fuller
Be gentle with everything in your life.
~ Bryan Kest
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
~ Jesus Christ
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
~ Jimmy Carter
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
~ Jimmy Carter
Lembro que naquela manhã também o calor era menos, e o ar era bondoso.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Patience is peace. Learning to be patient is a continual practice that takes years to ripen. Let it unfold, day by day, and be gentle with yourself in the learning.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Learn to be - gentle with them. Learn that... that gentleness isn't... weakness.
~ Joan D. Vinge
What if each child was taught from the cradle to sing the song of peace...would the cynics not call it foolish, saying that to be gentle is to be weak? But I tell you that until we are as innocent and pure as doves, our journey will be long and the way dark. Raise doves, not wolves.
~ Joann Davis
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard.
~ Anna Akhmatova
True Tenderness" True tenderness is silent and can't be mistaken for anything else. In vain with earnest desire you cover my shoulders with fur; In vain you try to persuade me of the merits of first love. But I know too well the meaning of your persistent burning glances.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Because of the violence that has been at work in my family for generations, I can't name one relative who believes that he or she is loveable, worthy of kindness, deserving of care, attention, gentleness. This is what violence does; it squeezes us down into creatures we are not meant to be, so self-loathing and fearful that it hurts too much to hope, constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, for things to begin badly, or end badly. Moments of joy and pleasure regarded with suspicion.
~ Anna Camilleri
She trembled under his hand. "You don't need to manhandle me." "I mightn't need to, but I'd certainly like to," he purred and was rewarded with another beguiling blush. Jonas couldn't recall the last time he'd consorted with a woman innocent enough to blush.
~ Anna Campbell
En fait, tu te donnes des airs comme ça mais t'es un gentil, toi... -Ta gueule.
~ Anna Gavalda
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is, and how it keeps a good mouth and a good temper, they would surely not chuck, and drag, and pull at the rein as they often do.
~ Anna Sewell
Love does not make me gentle or kind.
~ Anne Carson
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
~ Anne Frank
As God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. COLOSSIANS 3:12
~ Anne Graham Lotz
She leaned down, a fraction closer, and for some reason unknown to man, he lifted his head the tiniest bit. Enough so she could brush his cheek with her lips. "Good night, Mr. Merrick.
~ Anne Mallory
Let me hold your heart like a flower lest it bloom and collapse.
~ Anne Sexton
Beauty," he said, looking into her eyes, "resides where gentleness and love are the most wondrous of gifts.
~ Annette Blair