Quotes About Gentleness

Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.

We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respect-fully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence.

I like kisses that aren't too fast or rushed - that's what makes a good kiss.

Kindness starts simply. An encouraging word. A loving gesture. A tender sentiment sent through the mail. A thoughtful small token. The gift of unhurried time. A rousing pep talk. Simply vowing to speak and act in a way that is gentle and kind is the starting point. Aesop was right: "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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.

Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.

Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and tread lightly around the deepest scars of others.

The man was a walking dichotomy. Those powerful neck-snapping, knife-throwing hands that did murder without pause were equally capable of tenderness and delicacy.

Strong enough that I was no longer afraid to be gentle. Powerful enough that I could be vulnerable. Scarred enough that I could understand and

I won't hurt you," he said, his voice low and urgent.

You didn't have to rip my dress," she said plaintively when he let her breathe. "I love this one. Nellie worked on it for days." "I'm sorry, lass," he said somberly. " Ã¢â'¬â"¢Twas an accident, lass. Sometimes I forget my strength. I mean to be gentle but it doesn't come out that way. Can you forgive me?

I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face. Being touched by Jericho Barrons with kindness makes you feel like you must be the most special person in the world. It's like walking up to the biggest, most savage lion in the jungle, lying down, placing your head it its mouth and, rather than taking your life, it licks you and purrs.

Is there any phrase more startling than " the wrath of the Lamb'''' I think that if we had desired to describe wrath figuratively we should have written, the wrath of the " lion," but therein we should have failed. It is the wrath of the Lamb which is terrible, the wrath of One whose very heart and nature are love and gentleness. Wrath kindled by love is the fiercest flame that burns. p78

No one, not even the rain has such soft hands.

The secret title of every good poem might be 'Tenderness

You don't have in IN you to be like that, Hughie. You had too nice an upbringing. Your mom and dad were too good to you. And I wish you could see that you're not less of a MAN, or some sort of inferior person, just because you can't be harsh and hard and cold.

Burning with tender love is not really an image for someone who has warmed mercury over a gentle flame. In slowness, gentleness, and hope we have the hidden force of moral perfection and of material transmutation.

Empty Spaces: After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

I'm, if possible, more convinced than ever that this is the most beautiful part of the world, but it's an almost metallic, two-dimensional beauty with no warmth or gentleness to trick or woo you into liking it. Its great bleak loveliness is just there, hard and sharp, forever and ever.

divine love in all its varied expressions:m joy that overflows,n peace that subdues, patienceo that endures, kindnessp in action, a life full of virtue,q faith that prevails, gentleness of heart, and strength of spirit.

God wishes us to work gently, calmly, and lovingly with Him, asking Him to accept our work. By this continual attention to God, we will "resist the devil and cause him to flee" (James 4:7).

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.