Gentleness Quotes - Page 6

• In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Interaction With Others, Harmony

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• Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Spirit, Mistreated

  Joyce Meyer (2012). “Do Yourself a Favour ... Forgive: Learn How to Take Control of Your Life Through Forgiveness”, p.135, Hachette UK

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• Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive," she whispered. "I should have known. I should never have said anything." "Should have known what?" he ground out. Her hand fell away. "That you can't—that you couldn't—" "Can't what?" She looked down at her lap, where her hands were attempting to wring each other to shreds. "Please don't make me say it," she said. 'This," Simon muttered, "has got to be why men avoid marriage.

  Julia Quinn

  Men, Hands, Should Have

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• Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Opposites, Soul

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• It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be persuaded and brought to a good order and way of life, and made domestic, mild and tractable, provided . . . the method that is proper and natural to men is used; that is, love and gentleness and kindness.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Life, Kindness, Men

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1992). “Witness: writings of Bartolomé de las Casas”

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• O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

  John Keats

  Song, Simple, Romance

  John Keats (1962). “John Keats: With a Detailed Study and Text of Selected Poems”

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• I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Together, Unbreakable Bonds, Way

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.592, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Hatred, Joy

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• When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Soul, Mind

  Neale Donald Walsch (2008). “Happier Than God”, p.41, Jaico Publishing House

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• Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Wall, Honesty, Moving

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• You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

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• Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Acting, Human Nature

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• Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

  Jack London

  Heart, Hawaii, Stealing

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• The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Art, Kindness

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• Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

  Storm Jameson

  Memories, Habit, Ends

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• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Whales, People, Greed

  Kurt Vonnegut's address to the graduating class at Bennington College, 1970.

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• Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Children, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

  Walter Russell

  Secret, Impatience, Force

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• There is no true and constant gentleness without humility. While we are so fond of ourselves, we are easily offended with others. Let us be persuaded that nothing is due to us, and then nothing will disturb us. Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we will become indulgent towards those of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Thinking, Easily Offended

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• For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that with women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed, It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved. What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness. If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

  Arnold Haultain

  Sacrifice, Men, Want

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• I started understanding that my strength is my gentleness. A leader isn't a dictator, a leader is a servant.

  Tony Gaskins

  Leader, Understanding, Dictator

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• God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Winning, Light, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.502

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• I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kindness, Real, Calm

  Leigh Hunt (1850). “The Autobiography ... with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries”, p.98

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• Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Aggressive, Accomplish, All Things

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• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

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