Quotes About Gentleness

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive." I

How can such a hard man be so gentle? she asked wonderingly. If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

Her hair dreamt about being very carefully combed in the morning.

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.

I am the running brook that soothes your soul.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time

Fearless to the strong; humble to the weak

was my closest friend, and continued so for many years. He was the gentlest of us, the most thoughtful, the one who put most trust in others. And—perhaps because of these very qualities—he was the one who had most trouble with girls and, later, women. Was there something about his softness, and his inclination to forgive, which almost provoked bad behaviour in others? I wish I knew the answer to that, not least because of the time I let him down badly. I

And before he knew what he was doing, he reached out and with a thumb brushed away one teardrop glistening in that mauve crescent beneath her eyes. And then he looked down at his thumb, and rubbed the tear out of existence, right into his skin.

Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.

Still, there was something he'd wanted to know for some time now, and he found he couldn't deny himself this particular opportunity. Very gently, almost stealthily, he leaned forward and rested the backs of his fingers against Susannah's cheek. He regretted it instantly. For her skin was every bit as soft as he'd dreamed.

She slid her arms

A soft answer turneth away wrath." OLD TESTAMENT

Not every man is a liar, some of them, yes. Not all of them. There are good men out there, men who respect women, men with the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Men who'll be gentle with a newborn babe. Men who'll defend family and land and country with their dying breath.

JH, meu cavalheiro sem armadura, pois sua força interior sob o mais brando dos exteriores basta para conquistar.

There is a rare gentleness in you, the sweeter for its brief appearances.

When a family member's behavior threatens to knock the nice right out of us, we can pause. Recalculate. Punch in a different destination for the words now downloading from our brains onto our tongues. We can program them to first stop at gentleness, swing by to pick up respect, and finally — arrive with grace. Then our mouths can utter pleasant words rather than those that are caustic, cutting, and unkind.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.