Quotes About Gentleness

Breathe, sweetheart." A warm palm cupped her cheek, lips touched her brow. Gray.

I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.

I do not like violence.

I ain't never liked violence.

Actual violence has no attraction for me at all.

I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.

I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

I don't like violence.

I'm not someone who is a fan of a lot of violence.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

Tenderness is a virtue.

His expression is intense but gentle, a combination of a wise elder and a stuffed animal, and it comes with a message:

How easy it is, I thought, to break someone's heart, even when you take great care not to.

Meg forgot about cautioning him to be quiet. She forgot about everything but watching the care with which he wrapped a blanket around Mama Warner before gingerly lifting her into his arms and cradling her against his chest. "Comfortable?" he asked. "You know how to hold a woman so she feels precious. Makes me wish I was sixty years younger.

Let me not be proud at petty victories, and let me remember that if I should ever become respected by the boys, it will be my task to be merciful and gentle and kind. I am here, after all, to serve them.

Tea instead of gin will warm the heart.

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the entire planet. But just for now let us use this love to heal you. Feel a warmth beginning to glow in your heart center, a softness, a gentleness. Let this feeling begin to change the way you think and talk about yourself.

HANDS: I handle all ideas with love and ease.

True Strength is delicate.

For Armand Gamache knew what not-nice was. He knew what cruelty, despair, horror were. And he knew what a forgotten, and precious quality 'nice'was.