Gentle Quotes

Of course you did. I took a step closer. You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

~ Mary E. Pearson

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

~ Kamand Kojouri

When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you would never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You're elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there's a fire in you that I use to warm my hands on chilly mornings.

~ Taylor Rhodes

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

~ Mignon Mclaughlin

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

~ Amit Kalantri

Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.

~ Elizabeth George

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were reluctant, who were shy, who imagined that passion and tenderness were two things separate from one another, and not the one, gloriously intermingled, so that to be fierce was also to be gentle, so that silence was a speaking without words.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

funny how our heartswere designed to loveso fiercely.but break ever so gently.

~ Sanober Khan

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

~ Sanober Khan

Why we are gentlemen if life is not gentle with us?

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Troubles are not always terrible, but they are a gentle reminder to grow.

~ Debasish Mridha

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

~ George Herbert

Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together.

~ Connie Kerbs

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Amanda Mosher

Some boys feel they are like girls,They are gentle, and like their hair in curls.

~ Christina Engela

...I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind...

~ John Geddes

Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong.…Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,and the soft overcomes the hard.Yet no one applies this knowledge.

~ Lao Tzu

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.

~ Peter S. Beagle

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

~ Anjelica Huston

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

~ Gilbert Parker

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

~ Helen Rowland

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Culture makes all men gentle.

~ Menander