#gentleness

Love comforts, it is gentle, it is warm and you can feel it within your entire being. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

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These hands," he squeezed them both on my face to make his point, "will never touch you without being gentle. Unless that's not what you want, of course." His eyebrow lifted waiting for me to balk, but I just waited. "These arms will never hold you back, but I'll hold you as tight as you'll let me. I can't wait for you to be all mine. You belong to me in every way, Maggie. Mine." I nodded in his hands. He leaned closer and whispered, "Say it." I didn't wait a beat. "I belong to you." And he belonged to me. He grinned. "You're daggum right you do. ↗

— Shelly Crane

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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call "terrorism," I'm confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving it when they expressed it in much gentler ways -- they were trying to tell us how hurt they felt that some of their most sacred needs were not being respected by the way we were trying to meet our economic and military needs -- they got progressively more agitated. Finally, they got so agitated that it took horrible form. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

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