Quotes About Gentleness

I spend 70% of my time laughing. I don't walk around all dark. I might take my photos like that because I'm not a clown. But I'm a really soft, feminine, gentle, normal guy.

Fair and softly goes far.

We have to rethink the way we light our cities. We have to think again about light as a default solution. Why are all these motorways permanently lit? Is it really needed? Can we maybe be much more selective and create better environments that also benefit from darkness? Can we be more gentle with light?

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Tenderness, mercy and love, we all need more of.

Be kind to one another and seek beauty in all you do.

Kindness is the fragrance of pure love.

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him, how violently I loved.

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

I realised then that life could get up and bite you – and now Covid has got up and bitten us all. I know that kindness and gentleness are the most valuable commodities. Now, more than ever, they demand distribution.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. "Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. They were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship.

and in any case Nadia had taken one look at Saeed's father and felt him like a father, for he was so gentle, and evoked in her a protective caring, as if for one's own child, or for a puppy, or for a beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade.

and in any case Nadia had taken one look at Saeed's father and felt him like a father, for he was so gentle, and evoked in her a protective caring, as if for one's own child, or for a puppy, or for a beautiful memory one know has already commenced to fade.

Gentleness shown once is mercy, shown twice is folly.

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

A veces le sorprendía mirándome desde un rincón con una sonrisa mansa, como si la mera contemplación de mi presencia fuera su mayor tesoro.

Sometimes I'd catch him looking at me with a gentle smile, as if the very sight of my presence were his greatest treasure.

You're brave one minute, skittish the next. You need to be gentled, to learn that the hand that's stroking you can be trusted.

It is easier to lure a fish than to hit it over the head with a club.