Quotes About Gentleness

Love has no weapons; it has no fists. Love does not bruise, nor does it draw blood.

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds.

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly, as your spirit moves through me.

I want them to take from you the knowledge of how to be the gentlest, the most perfect brother.                                         Savannah

gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one—one that would do nobody any harm.

Quando estamos errados, podemos admiti-lo. E se lidarem connosco com gentileza e tato, podemos admiti-lo aos outros a até mesmo sentir orgulho pela nossa franqueza e abertura de espírito. Mas não, se for outra pessoa a tentar obrigar-nos a engolir à força um facto desagradável.

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

He who treads softly goes far.

So the sun went behind a cloud, and the wind blew until it was almost a tornado, but the harder it blew, the tighter the old man clutched his coat to him. Finally, the wind calmed down and gave up, and then the sun came out from behind the clouds and smiled kindly on the old man. Presently, he mopped his brow and pulled off his coat. The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.

Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don't want to change their minds. They can't be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly.

Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.

Softness triumphs over hardness, gentleness over strength. The flexible is superior over the immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. LAO-TZU

The world has already been too tough on her, the least she needs is tough love. Be tough when you need to be, but always be soft with her. She has thorns, but she is a flower.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin.

A fair, delicate girl, in a pretty light dress, trifling with the leaves of a sketch-book, while she looks up from it with truthful, innocent blue eyes—that is all the drawing can say; all, perhaps, that even the deeper reach of thought and pen can say in their language, either.

Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet content of the unacquisitive soul, the calm of the understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all living things.

It was ... a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.

Mi sa che le donne riescono a fare del bene senza essere tanto gentili. Gli uomini, be' forse. Ma solo una donna che è anche lei poco per bene sarà davvero gentile con un'altra che ha bisogno di gentilezza

There was a joy of life in him and a kind of tenderness untainted by the merely gentle." When I read that line, written by James Salter, many years later, I thought of Glenn.