#gentleness

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The ultimate wisdom is to see the human comedy with gentle eyes, knowing that our own heart plays its part upon the stage.

The highest philosophy is found in everyday kindness.

Speak only when your words are a balm.

Let kindness be your signature upon every path you walk.

Live lightly, love deeply, and leave gentle footprints upon the earth.

You do not have to be good. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

The tongue like a sharp knife... kills without drawing blood.

Silence the angry with gentleness and the false with truth.

Live simply, walk gently, and love boundary-free.

Let your words be like flowers: fragrant and gentle.

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.

Let your words carry the soothing balm of peace.

Speak such words that will bring peace to your own heart and fill others with serene joy.

Speak low, if you speak love.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

When the wind blows, the grass must bend.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Where there is space, the blade moves with effortless ease. So too does the spirit that does not force its way.

As the honeybee gathers nectar from thousands of blossoms without bruising a single petal, so must the sage walk through the village.

The quiet whisper of the rose touches the heart deeper than a trumpet.