Gentle Power Quotes

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.

If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains.

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

The power of gentleness is irresistible.

I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty. Jamie, thought, was something different. His extreme gentleness was in no way tentative; rather it was a promise of power known and held in leash; a challenge and a provocation the more remarkable for its lack of demand. I am yours, it said. And if you will have me, then.

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.

Schuyler put a gentle hand on Abbadon's feathered extensions, feeling the majestic power underneath their silky weight. She had been frightened once, to see him in this light, but now that she saw his terrifying face, she found it beautiful.

You don't have to touch the ocean for the ocean to touch you

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

What potent blood hath modest May.

A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

Use your power gently.

Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Time hath a taming hand.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.