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Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.
The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays.
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.
Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Don't judge the gentle; their gentleness is stronger than your fears and angers. Don't judge those who have lost their gentleness; you haven't lived their lives. In all people, hope for the gentleness to return and see gentleness for the beauty that it is.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known,
For a man by nothing is so well betrayed
As by his manners.
If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others.
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
What a gentle soul you are?
It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.
Humility makes one teachable;
gentleness makes one peaceable.
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
With gentleness, you will calm every aggressive action.
Reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.
What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything
makes one gentle and pliable.
It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard.
Be gentle with the young.
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love
I am actually a very gentle person.
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
Maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness
We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.
Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.
Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.
But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print ... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,
I mean good-nature,
are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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.
Tenderness rounds out true triumph, gentleness lubricates genuine liberation: emotions that are not diagnostic of glory or passion in dreams.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild ...
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
Every act of kindness, each moment spent in prayer, and every expression of love in the name of Christ pierces the heart of the enemy and sends him into retreat. These are the gentle weapons of the kingdom.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Why don't you like to be gentle? Did you never have a pet to learn how to be nice? I can teach you to be gentle. It's not hard.
Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell . . . .
be gentle, not fragile.
We ought to love and be gentle with one another.
I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be
Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.
A little impatience (carefully applied and infused with
Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
It's not right that gentleness meet horror.
Tenderness is a virtue.
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
The icy precepts of respect.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.
The wings of the dove are as soft as they are swift. Gentleness is a sure result of the Sacred Dove's transforming power: hearts touched by His benign influence are meek and lowly henceforth and for ever.
Power of softness and kindness are the greatest.
What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic.
Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
Faith is the gentleness of life.
I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
The warmth of mutual respect ... Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...
He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect.
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.
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.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
don't mind good, sweet, gentle things, like - oh, like almost everybody, if only they are sweet and good naturally. But generally they are not. Their sweetness is the result of education or morality, or something tedious, not the result of their natures, of themselves.
I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.
to be respected be respecting
The comfort and sweetness of peace.
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
Being gentle doesn't stop us fighting for our dreams.
A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness - the beautiful wreckage of mercy.
Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward.
Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.
Be strong, Be gentle, Be beautiful.
Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.