"Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness..." - Quote by Rumi
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
More by Rumi
“In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.”
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
“In this earth,in this immaculate field,we shall not plant any seedsexcept for compassion,except for love.”
More on Strength
“The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
“A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.”
“Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.”
More on Compassion
“History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.”
“We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.”
“His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.”