Quotes About Gentleness

What seems undesirable in our lives doesn't have to put us to sleep. What seems undesirable in our lives doesn't have to trigger habitual reactions. We can let it show us where we're at and let it remind us that the teachings encourage precision and gentleness, with loving-kindness toward every moment.

The innocent mistake that keeps us caught in our own particular style of ignorance, unkindness, and shut-downness is that we are never encouraged to see clearly what is, with gentleness.

Gentleness is not kindness. His fluid personality tested and stole into the weak places of others until it found it could settle down to its own advantage.

She's innocent, and she loves easily.

Why trample on a flower when you don't need to?

the killing blow is sometimes the softest

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender -A

If you want to be loved,be a loveable. It's a good place to start.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

It's not right that gentleness meet horror.

Your mother was such a gentle person. I always feel when I see someone like her that I'm watching the last flowers fall. This is no world for gentle people.

Good and evil began to seem incomprehensibly blended in her judgment. It was her belief that evil could not come forth from good; yet here was a murderer who dwarfed in gentleness, patience, and love any man she had ever known.

I'm really good at being loving and affectionate to animals.

I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.

You have to treat your skin very tenderly. You can't be aggressive with your skin.

I'm a real pushover for animals.

Nonetheless, like all truly strong people, his speech was soft, his manners simple, and he was naturally kind.

This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.

Love and peace are transmitted not through words but the soft light of the eyes and the curved lips of a gentle smile.