Quotes About Gentleness

It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness

when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.

It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously. Today may end up the way you prefer, and it may not. Happiness is not about being a winner, it's about being gentle with life, being gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance you want for today,perhaps a gentle loving dance.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force...except occasionally.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly, the while

It takes strength to be firm, it takes courage to be gentle.

Be considerate and compassionate, don't be harsh. You will achieve through gentleness that which you cannot achieve through harshness.

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place...

Be soft, don't let the world make you hard. Be gentle, don't let the people make you difficult. Be kind, don't let the realities of life steal your sweetness and make you heartless.

I have had occasion to meet with, in convents for instance, literally saintly examples of practical charity, they have generally had the brisk, decided, undisturbed and slightly brutal air of a busy surgeon, the face in which one can discern no commiseration, no tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, and no fear of hurting it, the face devoid of gentleness or sympathy, the sublime face of true goodness.

to understand that the rule among humankind—which allows of exceptions, naturally—is that the hard are the weak whom no one has wanted, and that the strong alone, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have that gentleness that the crowd mistakes for weakness.

Custom came to take me in her arms, carried me all the way up to my bed, and laid me down there like a little child.