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Quotes About Gentleness

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
~ Chinese proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
~ Chinese proverb
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
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
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
This was how a kind heart broke, after all: inward, making no shrapnel. Dear
~ Chris Cleave
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
~ Christina Rosetti
Speak gently but look out for your rights.
~ Christine de Pizan
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
my gentleness is a veneer on raging despair.
~ Helen Macdonald
Show kindness to all, be gentle and loving, then all will love you
~ Helen Rappaport
Toi dont la douceur est si douce Qu'elle console l'Inconnu !
~ Henri Barbusse
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
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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
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
An amiable weakness.
~ Henry Fielding
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
Be soft, be kind, be warm – you'll be happy.
~ Leslie Miklosy
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.
~ lewis c s iii
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
~ Mo Udall
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
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