The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Slowing down is not always easy, but there are many gems to be found at a gentler pace.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
“The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things. — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she’d never break free. For… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image