Quotes About Gentleness
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
~ Chinese proverb
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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
~ Chinese proverb
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Many people have discovered that mindfulness offers them a down-to-earth yet immediate way to connect with themselves. It is simple acceptance, described here as making friends with yourself. It is, as well, a means to unlock creativity and compassion. Meditation is a powerful technique for developing mindfulness, which can help us discover a way of being that is authentic, relaxed, and gentle. Meditation
~ Chogyam Trungpa
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So, when you sit in the saddle on your fickle horse, you feel completely exposed and gentle. If you feel aggressive, you don't have a good seat. In fact, you are probably not even riding the horse.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
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What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.
~ Chris Abani
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This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel. Dear
~ Chris Cleave
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Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
~ Christina Rosetti
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Speak gently but look out for your rights.
~ Christine de Pizan
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Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.
~ Helen Garner
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my gentleness is a veneer on raging despair.
~ Helen Macdonald
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Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you
~ Helen Rappaport
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Toi dont la douceur est si douce Qu'elle console l'Inconnu !
~ Henri Barbusse
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When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love.
~ Henry Drummond
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Do you know the meaning of the word 'gentleman'? It means someone who does things gently. That is the whole art and mystery of Love.
~ Henry Drummond
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An amiable weakness.
~ Henry Fielding
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The more a man learns, Dickens said, "the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered for the truth in every age and time… he will become more tolerant of other men's belief in all matters, and will incline more leniently to their sentiments when they chance to differ from his own.
~ Les Standiford
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Be soft, be kind, be warm – you'll be happy.
~ Leslie Miklosy
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The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.
~ lewis c s iii
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
~ Mo Udall
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The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
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Existo. Es algo tan dulce, tan dulce, tan lento. Y leve; como si se mantuviera solo en el aire. Se mueve. Por todas partes, roces que caen y se desvanecen. Muy suave, muy suave
~ Jean Paul Sartre
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