Gentleness Quotes

“He touched me cautiously like a deer touches things with its face”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Forgiving, gentle, kind and meek are strength under control.”
― Gabriel Dibble

“Slowing down is not always easy, but there are many gems to be found at a gentler pace.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“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?”
― N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

“Not a kernel of kindness ever goes to waste, Not a gesture of gentleness ever goes awry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Monseigneur Bienvenu had been formerly, according to the accounts of his youth and even of his early manhood, a passionate, perhaps a violent man. His universal tenderness was less an instinct of nature than the result of a strong conviction filtered through life into his heart, slowly dropping in upon him, thought by thought; for a character, as well as a rock, may be worn into by drops of water.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Do you know how careful my love will make me? See here, look at my hands. Say there’s a cobweb spun between them. It’s my ambition. And at its centre there’s a spider, a color of a jewel. The spider is you. This is how I shall bear you — so gently, so carefully and without jar, you shall not know you are being taken.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

“Colors are expressible tune key tone that one can play along the arts of music of life exquisitely the meaning of things”
― Ben Jr Grey

“But we were never lone and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except it was an even better time. If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“It is always a good idea to be good and kind to yourself. Do whatever it takes to treat yourself with love and gentleness. You are a rare gem.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen

“My gentleness was claimed in the most devastatingly brutal of ways.
I am equally fierce in its protection.
You’d be well served not to forget that.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“I am attracted to humility, while arrogance repels me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.”
― Chris Fabry, A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

“Let us be the most progressive people that ever walked the planet, with our firm sense of reason accompanied by a revolutionary gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Gentler the soul, lighter the strife.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“In a world full of wolves devouring on each other's carcasses, be an elephant with incomparable courage and revolutionary gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Be humble to the lowly, and gentle to weak. Be a dinosaur to the phony, and a stone wall to the critic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Revolution is the foundation of civilization's evolution, but it must be rooted in gentleness, not cancellation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“It is a hypocrites' world where honesty is a curse. though gentle inside, learn to pretend dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Take St. Bernard... He only fell back on strong measures when he had clear evidence that all other means were useless. Often, too, he varied between gentleness and strength. After having shown his great love for souls by avenging some principle with holy indignation and stern demands for remedies, reparation, guarantees, and promises, he would at once display the tenderness of a mother in the conversion of those whom his conscience had forced him to fight.”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard O.C.S.O., The Soul of the Apostolate

“Be the breeze, be the water, be the serene shade of a heartful tree. In character be an elephant, gentle, unafraid and forever free.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Not a kernel of kindness ever goes to waste, Not a gesture of gentleness ever goes awry. The unselfish one is the happiest person in the world, You'll find joy when you answer someone's cry.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Lancelot was a sadist who refrained from hurting people through his sense of honour - his Word. His Word was his promise to be gentle, and it was one of the things that made him the Best Knight in the World. 'All through his life,' [T.H.] White wrote of Lancelot, 'even when he was a great man with the world at his feet - he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand.' White always took great pains to be gentle precisely because he wanted to be cruel. It was why he never beat his pupils at Stowe.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“I am a very violent person,
Yet nobody has seen my violence.
I've kept it overwhelmed all my life,
With a heart full of gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“There's a difference between what we need to have and what we need to be. Head is what need to have, Heart is what we need to be.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Love was the same way. The higher the stakes, the more impossible the odds, the more eager she was to up the ante. It was the one thing the two sisters had in common.
“That gold is as good as mine,” Death said. “Humans are selfish creatures who can always be counted on to do the wrong thing. Shall I tell you how the story ends? The Beast is horrible to Belle, she abandons him, the last petal falls. Fini.”
Love jutted her chin. “You have no idea how the story ends. You’re not its author. Sometimes kindness and gentleness win.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

“Intimacy reveals gentleness in brutes and brutality in gentlemen.”
― Augusto Branco

“Wield your wounds like crown,
Savor your scars like chocolate.
Wounds may turn animals bitter,
They usher humans into gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“The glory that money offers is like grass; unquestionably, when the scorching sun rises on grass, its greenery fades! But the glory that Jesus Christ bestows on those who trust in Him, endures and leads to humility and gentleness.”
― Bruce Mbanzabugabo

“The glory that money offers is like grass. Unquestionably, when the sun rises with its scorching heat, the grass withers! But the glory that Jesus Christ bestows on those who trust in Him, endures and leads to humility and gentleness.”
― Bruce Mbanzabugabo