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Gentleness is to be calm and kind

• Gentleness: The quality of being kind, tender, or mild-mannered.  Oxford Dictionary
• Gentleness: Calm, kind, or soft.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Gentleness: Not severe, rough, or violent; mild. Dictionary.com
• Gentleness: Free from harshness, sternness, or violence.  Merriam Webster
• Calmness,  Kindness, Thoughtfulness,  Caring

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Gentleness is one of the great virtues

• The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. St. Isaac of Ninevah
• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Lao Tzu
• True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. Hugh Blair
• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mohandas Gandhi
• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor.  Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things:  through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids—all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through.  Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.  Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake. Garrison Keillor
• Virtue

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Be gentle with others

• The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good– and how he treats people who can’t fight back. Abigail Van Buren
• Feelings are everywhere — be gentle. Masa

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Be gentle with yourself

• Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. Max Ehrmann
• Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. Wilfred Peterson
• Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others. Lama Yeshe

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Be gentle and patient with troubles and difficulties

• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales
• Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by war. Our problems are solved by loving kindness, by gentleness, by joy.  Buddha
• Patience

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Pursue success gently without stress or obsession

• If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. Carlos Castaneda
• Stress management

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You cannot be too gentle or too kind

• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives. Seraphim of Sarov
• Kindness

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How to become more gentle

• Gentleness is a way of life, showing our love in how we interact with people and things. Like any way of life, gentleness has to be practiced for us to become more gentle. If we want to become more gentle, we must take active steps, that is (1) choosing to be more gentle, (2) keeping this resolution in mind, (3) acting in gentleness, and (4) catching ourselves when we are not gentle so that we can be more aware of our gentleness or lack of gentleness in the future. Thomas Stobie
• The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding. Thich Nhat Hanh

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Real gentleness is combined with love and tenderness

• It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals, a love engendering gentleness and goodness that moved me and that I saw in you. William Carlos Williams
• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. Pema Chodron
• True gentleness is love in society, holding intercourse with those around it. — It is considerateness; it is tenderness of feeling; it is promptitude of sympathy; it is love in all its depths, and in all its delicacy. James Hamilton
• Gentleness is not apathy but is an aggressive expression of how we view people. We see people as so valuable that we deal with them in gentleness. . . . To be apathetic is to turn people over to mean and destructive elements, to truly love people causes us to be aggressively gentle. Gayle D. Erwin
• You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.  Mitch Albom
• Love

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Real gentleness is combined with firmness

• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity. François de la Rochefoucauld

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Real gentleness is combined with honesty

• Honesty, without gentleness, is nothing but brutality … Gentleness, without honesty, is nothing but sentimentality. Fr. Emmerich Vogt
• Honesty

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Gentleness is a sign of great strength

• Softness overcomes hardness. Zuo Qiuming
• I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten
• Only the gentle are ever really strong. James Dean
• There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. Ralph W. Sockman
• Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo F. Buscaglia
• Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. Richard Paul Evans
• Gentleness is a divine trait: nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing so gentle as real strength. Ralph Sockman
• Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens. Elizabeth George
• His gentleness was uncompromising; because he would not compete for dominance, he was indomitable. Ursula K. LeGuin
• Life is a cycle of breaking and mending. It breaks you, only to heal. The process should not make us hard, but strong yet gentle… John B. Bejo
• In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so!  Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity.  Instead of losing, the gentle gain.  Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead! Charles R. Swindoll
• Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. Brenda Peterson
• Gentleness means recognizing that the world around us is fragile, especially other people. It is recognizing our own capacity to do harm and choosing to be tender, soft-spoken, soft-hearted, and careful. When we are gentle we touch the world in ways that protect and preserve it. Being gentle doesn’t mean being weak; gentleness can be firm, even powerful. To behave in a gentle manner requires that we stay centered in our own values and strength — that we are active rather than reactive. Coming from this center, a gentle word or touch can channel our energy into healing or making peace.
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Gentleness brings rewards

• Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness. Markus Zusak
• Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter. Deborah Day
• Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. Hugh Blair
• Vanquish an angry man by gentleness. Indian Proverb
• The spiritual warrior’s discipline is gentleness. Asserting gentleness in all spheres of life, non- violence and peace are achieved. Radha Sahar

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Gentleness can be very persuasive

• Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15 Bible
• To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self- sacrifice — and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. Friedrich Nietzsche
• In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mahatma Gandhi
• Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair. Sa’di
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Force, on the other hand, very rarely achieves anything lasting

• I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. Max Lucado
• You can bomb the world to pieces, but you can’t bomb it into peace. Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. Abraham Lincoln
• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! Charlotte Brontë
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Gentleness can overcome anger

• The way to overcome the angry person is with gentleness, the evil person with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.  Indian Proverb
• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It’s as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear. Marcus Aurelius
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Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty

• Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. Phaedrus
• Cruelty

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