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Quotes About Gentleness

the rule among the human race—a rule that naturally admits of exceptions—is that the reputedly hard are the weak whom nobody wanted, and that the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that gentleness which the vulgar herd mistakes for weakness.
~ Marcel Proust
The little things are most worthwhile-- quiet word, a look, a smile.
~ Unknown
It's not emotion that makes him gentle; it's instinct. He can be gentle even when he feels no emotion; he can be gentle when touching something soft. The way you're careful when you touch a peach.
~ Unknown
Los verdaderamente fuertes son los que en esta vida saben ser dulces y estar llenos de amor.
~ Unknown
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
~ Charles Lamb
And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
~ Martin Scorsese
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
~ Thomas S. Monson
If you must make a noise, make it quietly.
~ Oliver Hardy
La atención es la caricia más hermosa.
~ Mario Benedetti
Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
~ Marisha Pessl
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
~ Marjorie Holmes
True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.
~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.
~ Melissa McCarthy
Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.
~ Libba Bray
The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.
~ William Wordsworth
Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.
~ Bryant H. McGill
There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with a gentle and peaceful spirit.
~ Unknown
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
~ Nancy Reagan
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
~ William Shakespeare
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
~ Chinese proverb
Do all things with love.
~ Og Mandino
Love does not loathe or bind, When it's true, pure, and kind.
~ Unknown
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
~ Jim Elliot
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.
~ Alexander MacLaren