Quotes About Gentleness

I know where beauty lives, I've seen it once, I know the warmth she gives.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

My dear girl. I am equally fond of man and beast alike. There is not the slightest drop of enmity in my system.

I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face...

suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind.The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —Henry James

Kit turned to him and blinked, candlelight cupping his cheek like a hand.

They had not been lied to. The men were gentle; when one leaned, moved, spoke, the other mirrored. She sensed it in the energy between them, their calm failure to react on any visceral level to her smile, the swell of her breasts, the curve of her lips-or to the more youthful charms of her security detail. She knew it as surely as she would have known fear or hunger. Not only were they gentle, they were together.

He tossed his head to flick his dripping hair from his eyes, and then wished he hadn't, because Baines climbed up the three swaybacked steps to the dais and smoothed the muddy locks back with thick gentle fingers. Kit flinched from the touch as if it burned him, and in his heart he heard an angel whimper.

Wait," the necromancer said, and kissed her around that silencing finger. "Gently, Rien. It's not about getting it over with as fast as possible, my sweet.

My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living—no matter our unworthiness.

There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.

then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

fearlessness is the product of tenderness.

History remembers the velvet hearted.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither compassion nor disdain, only a kind of disillusioned, sympathetic solidarity.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.