Quotes about gentleness

Humility of the soul divine.

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don’t just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone’s eyes.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

What a gentle soul you are?

MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness,a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.

Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!

I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.

We will share each other’s burdens with love and kindness.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!

The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true

Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.

Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face. The eyes that could astutely spot any danger in the area would regard me wonderingly and worshipfully, like I was the most beautiful and amazing woman in the world.

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

What I know about you, Henry,” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

Whatever you do, be gentle. People might have forgiven your harsh words but they may never forget how it stabbed their heart at that time!

The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.

He'd wanted to - he didn't know. Break bottles. Break windows, crash cars. Burn down the world. Find solace at the bottom of countless more bottles of wine, this time consumed in solitude. In the end he did none of these things; while he knew the shapes and forms of rage and grief, he had, in truth, nothing more than gentleness inside to sustain him.

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage. The man who succumbs to his wife, the mother who succumbs to her daughter, the master who succumbs to his servant, is as often brought to servility by a continual aversion to the giving of pain, by a softness which causes the fretfulness of others to be an agony to himself,—as by any actual fear which the firmness of the imperio

No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.

Her hand had a lot of strength gained through the process of gentleness.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.

The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!

Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind.

Always be humble and gentle with one another.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

Only love can touch the heart.

The highest goodness is like water.Water is beneficial to all things but not contend. It stays in places which others despise. Therefore it is near Tao. The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and strong nothing proves better than water. For there is no alternative to it. The weak can overcome and the yielding can overcame the hard. This all the world

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

Compassion is an act of love.

Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.

may my touchalways...be tenderas i would strokemother's cheekswhen she cried.

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters

The attitude of others towards you is the reflection of their state of mind.

Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind.

The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers.

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

only the gentlest hands can brush away tears

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being.

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

Injurious Personis not the Person who got Hurt,Its the person who Learned.

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its own sake, not because I didn't have the courage to be cruel. I might even like cruelty. I doubt very much that I would, but I ought to find out.

...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within.

Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

For certain he hath seen all perfectnessFor certain he hath seen all perfectness. Who among other ladies hath seen mine: They that go with her humbly should combine To thank their God for such peculiar grace. So perfect is the beauty of her face That it begets in no wise any sign Of envy, but draws round her a clear line Of love, and blessed faith, and gentleness. Merely the sight of her inakes all things bow: Not she herself alone is holier Than all: but hers, through her, are raised above. Fro

There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

If a violent person wishes to attack us, let us send him a gentle phrase as this will defuse his violence.

There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.

That's my wish for our community, as it were, that during this very confusing and amazing time, we be gentle with ourselves, and with each other.

Be gentle, kind and loving as often as you possibly can.

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research.

We don’t have the right to forgive people; it is not only about our kindness or gentleness, it is about keeping the justice stable.

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

We need to learn to dance more softly.

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

Be gentle and kind all the time.

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Failure Is Not Permanent, So Is The Success. So, Don't Look Down Upon People Who Are Failed While You're Succeeded. Table Can Turn Anytime. Be Gentle To Every Creation, It Ain't Cost A Thing....

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.

One day you will be able to look over all the disaster and heartbreak and feel ok with it, today mighten be the day but one day you will.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Be gentle and humble in heart.

When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonma

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

SUMMERthe cattails swayand the bamboodances gently intothe brightness ofa happy day.

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so ag