Quotes About Gentleness

The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness.

Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.

You are most beautiful when your heart is full of love and your mind is soft and kind.

And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

With rough hands and gentle heart, I'll seduce you. You will feel my power and surrender to desire.

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

Gentleness is akin to divinity. Perhaps no quality is so far removed from all that is coarse, brutal and selfish as gentleness, so that when one is becoming gentle, he is becoming divine.

She had an incredible sweetness that touched us, and a gentle soul that blazed. Now that she's gone, we're still reaching for the glow - willing to grab what light we can." - Charles Casillo

After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said, "Here's your little horn back.

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion -- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

Each of them lived in a fear of discovery; each of them who was able built up his own defenses of swagger, pretense, and loud assertion—the great masculine flower of gentleness, courage, and honor died in a foul tangle. The great clan of go-getter was emergent in young boys—big in voice, violent in threat, withered and pale at heart—the "He-men" were on the rails.

Henry Dobbins made the washing motion with his hands. You're right, he said. All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?

Lancelot Delano (that was his actual name, though his friends called him "Gumboot") was a tall, gawky youth, strong as a mule but sweet as molasses and just about as slow.

Much handled things are always soft(27).

The butterfly danced on the flower.

Lindsay was treated likewise by Mr. Butler, who washed his face as though he was five years old and still unreliable with chocolate.

You're just the right size for hugging.

Slowly, the fire rolled down to her hands, and was this jittery flame and she was holding it. She was holding it in her hands, cupped together. It looked like what love must look like, just barely there, so easy to extinguish.

and, holy Mary Mother of Christ, he became as gentle as a lamb. The Pope is coming next week to give him first communion and confirmation.' The guru spoke next. He was in a wheelchair with an IV drip and both legs in casts.

Probably hurts him to walk at all, and he couldn't really go faster, not without tripping himself. He's showing sense. This ought to make a big difference." I felt stung. I'd been hurting him, and I didn't know.

Ewan had shown her ways for a man to take a woman that she wouldn't have thought possible. But never once had he hurt her. Nay, her bear was ever tender.

Only let the darkness inside her that she fears also be the darkness of infinite gentleness, the mouth for killing the same mouth that carries the babies safely away.