Quotes about Gentleness

It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.

reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.

There is nothing stronger than gentleness

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness

It's very important as a beginner that you understand right from the start that meditation is about befriending your thinking, about holding it gently in awareness, no matter what is on your mind in a particular moment. It is not about shutting off your thoughts or changing them in any way.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

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.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

We are like a frightened bird before him, shrinking away lest his demand crush us completely. But when we eventually yield—when he corners us and finally takes us into his hand—we find to our astonishment that he is infinitely gentle and that his only aim is to release us from our prison, to set us free to be the people he made us to be. But when we fly out into the sunshine, how can we not then offer the same gentle gift of freedom, of forgiveness, to those around us?