Quotes About Gentleness

Whatever you do be gentle with yourself. You don't just live in this world, or your home, or your skin. You also live in someones eyes.

It is in my nature to be kind, gentle and loving... BUT KNOW THIS: When it comes to matters of protecting my friends, my family and my heart.. Do not trifle with me. For I'm the most powerful and relentless creature you will ever know...

There's no crime in being kind.

It's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life.

Let him." He kneels, smooths back the hair on my forehead. I am wrapped in blankets, to muffle the smell.

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

A good man?s intellect is piercing, yet inflicts no wound; his actions are deliberate, yet bold; his heart is warm, but never burns; his speech is eloquent, yet ever true.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

Con la voz enternecida por las sonrisas, me dijiste que siempre había que cortar por debajo del capullo, pues si no se corría el riesgo de herir a la rosa; y un hombre jamás debe herir a una rosa, ¿no es así? Pero ¿quién piensa en lo que hiere a los hombres?

My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her own troubles blended in a smile which, unlike those seen on the majority of human faces, bore no trace of irony save for herself, while for all of us kisses seemed to spring from her eyes, which could not look upon those she loved without seeming to bestow upon them passionate caresses.

To have a kind heart is everything

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

Love is not something you save and hoard. You're born with it and you spend it when you have to and there's always more because you're a woman and there's always suffering and pain and gentleness and sadness to make it grow.

to his cheek, and went back to the bed.

When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.

Her fingers moved gently in his hair. She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.

If I'm a little late, don't go before I get there, will you? Would you like to carry my books home? Yes, said Cal. She looked at him long, full in the eyes, until he wanted to drop his gaze, and then she walked away toward her class.

He was concupiscent as a rabbit and gentle as hell.

I like to pet nice things with my fingers