Gentleness Quotes

“Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“... you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Be like the elephant my friend - with a strong character and a gentle soul.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“Being gentle with ourselves in an organic way allows us to find refuge and access serenity. Gentleness helps us to learn from our mistakes without being hard on ourselves. We can learn from making a mistake without attacking ourselves.”
― Christopher Dines, Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles

“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, A Fine and Private Place

“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!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Gentleness is not weakness. Just the opposite. Preserving a gentle spirit in a heartless world takes extraordinary courage, determination, and resilience. Do not underestimate the power of gentleness because gentleness is strength wrapped in peace, and therein lies the power to change the world.”
― L.R. Knost

“And I touched her with the strongest, most delicate touch in the world--like the thumb of God running down the spine of a baby bird.”
― Jonathan Evison, All About Lulu

“You may feel dandy but the world is not your candy.”
― Lorin Morgan-Richards

“Being beautiful has little to do with your looks, and everything to do with your soul.”
― Melody Carstairs

“I can help," he said, "but you'll need to tell me what's bothering you." His voice was gentle, and that gentleness was cruel. I wished he would yell. If he yelled, it would make me angry, and when angry I felt powerful. I didn't know if I could do this without feeling powerful.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“The practice of living in Spirit is like polishing a stone. No matter how rough the stone may have been, with perseverance and gentle care it will eventually shine, revealing the inner beauty and divine essence which was there all along. Within each of us lies a heavenly gem, waiting patiently for us beneath the surface of our conditioning. It is ready to be handled with our loving kindness that it may again shine radiantly and majestically, in harmony with all things in this grand and mysterious world.”
― James K. Papp, Inquire Within: A Guide to Living in Spirit

“Well, there would be no sound
if we shout on the background.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“Quiet reflection
is often the mother of deep understanding.
Maintain that peaceful nursery,
enabling stillness to speak.”
― Tom Althouse

“Being positive takes courage.
Kindness takes courage.
Gentleness takes courage.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best

“The most important symptom of tact derives from this respect for the individuality of oneself and others: sensitivity. It is the only way possible to construct pleasant sociable interactions, as it never permits too much closeness nor too much distance. Everything explicit, every eruptive honesty, is avoided. Untruth which succors is always better than truth which damages; however, a bindingness which does not bind is the best. In this sphere there should be neither good nor evil, neither truth nor error, but only the value of beneficence - the hygiene of the greatest possible nurturance. Only the barbaric person lets himself be deceived by flattery and lets himself be surrounded by the fog of politeness, only to curse the world so spoiled. Let us imagine just for a second what interaction between persons who barely know each other and yet who say what they think or even assume about the other is like: After a quick collision, the coldness of outer space would descend upon them.”
― Helmuth Plessner, Grenzen der Gemeinschaft

“Gentleness breeds sanity, anger breeds insanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Servitude is Sanctitude

“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.”
― Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

“SILENT LIKE SLEEP
You appear by my side,
silent like sleep.
Soft hair, a little wild.
No fear, gentle like a calm river.

I turn and catch your gaze,
before you have time to look away.
Your eyes are searching inside mine.
Perhaps, they ARE mine.

More than nakedness,
for there is no cover to take.
The fire in your eyes
is ringed with water; wide and cool.

We are far from the brutal place,
but you do not think so.
You take my hand
and disappear like you were never there,
except that I am now somewhere else.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Gentleness is like decency and beauty; it is fading away from our universe. Nothing is left but fake shadows, not even the genuine ones. Actually, they are being replaced by rudeness, vulgarity, and ugliness.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din

“I am a miner's daughter," Demelza said. "I was not brought up gentle. Gentleness –is that the right word?– came upon me when I was half grown. I have Ross to thank for that. And you. But it don't alter me underneath. I still have two marks on my back where Father used the belt. There's naught a few drunks could do but what I couldn't give them back. Tis all a matter of being in the mood.”
― Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark

“Why did you leave all the others?
he asked me.
They weren’t soft enough.

—redefining masculinity”
― Ashley Asti, The Moon and Her Sisters

“Gentleness is not kindness. His fluid personality tested and stole into the weak places of others until it found it could settle down to its own advantage.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald

“Gentleness generates gentleness. But joy generates love, passion, tenderness and a good dose of laughter.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Fragility is the mask of mastery.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“If you got the pride in practice game you will get humiliation in real game.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A polite man learns from everyone, a proud man learns from no one.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Modesty smiles, arrogance smirks.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A humble man is welcomed at all doors.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words