Quotes About Gentleness

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Gentleness can be developed with simple thoughts. First, appreciate who you are and make friends with yourself. Look at what you can do, and don't allow what you cannot do to oppress you. Rather, regard it as a future adventure. The practice of meditation allows for this development to take place.

Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

We can use the time recovering from an injury to train our mind in gentleness and firmness.

Gentleness is like water—it will eventually reach its goal. Aggression is like fire—it is quick and then it is gone.

Aggression is a short-term solution for a long-term problem. Gentleness is persistent. Gentleness is therefore a sign of strength, while aggression is often a sign of weakness.

To be gentle is to encourage ourselves.

My meditation teachers taught me that with aggression, you may accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

To be gentle is to understand that life is a journey deserving constant attentiveness. Therefore it is gentleness that allows us to finish a marathon, not putting pressure on ourselves to immediately think about the next one. Gentleness is "just doing it" in such a way that we can do it again and again.

Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

Her gentle limbs did she undress,And lay down in her loveliness.

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.

but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind

He held her close against him so that she could feel the beating of his heart. He did not attempt to kiss her and when he released her he did it gently, holding on to her hand and smiling down into her eyes. It was a moment she felt she would remember all her life.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.