Quotes About Gentleness

Once he saw her shaking a walnut tree, he saw her sitting on the lawn knitting a blue sweater, three or four times he found a bouquet of late flowers on his porch, or a handful of chestnuts in a little sack, or some autumn leaves neatly pinned to a sheet of white paper and thumb-tacked to his door.

It's not hard to be me, thought Pooh. Just be Here and Now, and be Kind.

In a modern dictionary, the noun "melancholy" has two definitions. First, it means "thoughtful or gentle sadness.

You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. GALATIANS 5:22–23 NIV

Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )

A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.' 'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.

Perhaps it took several generations to make a man, perhaps it took several combinations and re-creations of his mother's gentleness and resilience, his father's enormous energy and appetite for the new, a subtle blending of masculine and feminine, selfish and selfless, stubborn and yielding, before a proper man could be fashioned.

Peace is always beautiful.

Christians are sensitive. We want to be liked and accepted. It is pleasant to be agreeable and peaceful. As God's grace quickens in us a love for men, a sense of courtesy is heightened, a longing for gentleness and peace is increased. But with all of this our Lord's honor is at issue in the discussion. You must consciously choose words that pain your own social consciousness and love of peace. Self has to be crucified. Two hearts are broken, not merely one.

La mansedumbre sin dignidad es bajeza o humillación. En otras palabras, la mente flexible tiene en cuenta la norma, pero también aquellos factores complementarios y equilibrantes que la apaciguan.

Ansiando pela Primavera "Chô-chô, Chô-chô, na no ha ni tomare; Na no ha ga iyenara, te ni tomare…" Borboleta, vem pousar Na tenra colza - ou então, Se não te agrada a colza, Vem pousar na minha mão

Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Your eyes smile peace.

No hables tosco, torpe ni duro a quien amas. Habla suave. Habla dulce. Habla de tal manera que vengan los cambios, y no de tal forma que su corazón se cierre. Reclama cambios cuando así corresponda, pero no olvides que tú eres el primero al que no le deba costar cambiar. No pongas condiciones tales como «si no cambia…», y tú no estés dispuesto a cambiar en eso que exiges en ella cambiar. Eso es simplemente falta de autoridad.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

A feather on a breeze," Wash said, then frowned. "Something like that, at any rate. There may be a better analogy.

My father was the best man I ever knew," Roosevelt later said. "He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness

You won't change her by making fun of her. You just hurt her feelings.

And then the blue eyes, with gentleness, scanned all her new-made body and came to rest on her eyes. 'I have begun to eat,' said Francis Crawford. 'And I have begun to slake my thirst. But in you I have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve me for ever.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

You use reassurance, combined with pressure and release, to gentle the horse. You go slow. No surprises. Predictability and repetition.