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Quotes About Gentleness

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
~ Thomas Dekker
I'm not here to put bruises on people's backs or to send them to the hospital. I'm here to put smiles on people's faces.
~ Bayley
Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
~ Rajneesh
Love pats are soft punches of encouragement that are admistered on the knee, shoulder, and arm.
~ Stephen Chbosky
True love never forces.
~ William P. Young
The principals in elegantly simple. We learn to love by being loved, we learn gentleness by being gentled, we learn to be graceful by experiencing the feeling of grace.
~ Deane Juhan
I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up.
~ Elvis Presley
His fingers have been slowly lacing through my hair.
~ Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Everlasting love, unfailing kindness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.
~ Osho
i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.
~ AVA., you are safe here.
Walk gently, and be brave.
~ Eleanor Brownn
A person can be so beautiful when the heart is filled with love and the voice shivers with kindness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love is patient, love is kind.
~ Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Kindness is a rose, love is a bundle.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone.
~ Brian D. McLaren
Honey girl, I don't care what you do as long as you're kind to everyone you meet.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.
~ Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Each of us is the ultimate expert on the gentleness and understanding we deserve.
~ César Aira
Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.
~ Terry Pratchett
He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower.
~ Terry Pratchett
He opened the box and took out the kitten. It stared at him with the normal mad amazement of kittens everywhere. I DON'T HOLD WITH CRUELTY TO CATS, said Death, putting it gently on the floor.
~ Terry Pratchett
You can sit down with that fearful child inside and be gentle with him or her. You might say something like this: "Dear little child, I am your adult self. I would like to tell you that we are no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and strong feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there is no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh