A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Kindness is easy to hold. It takes very little to secure someone inclined to be good to you, a small attention or a word at the right moment, and they are bound. That is a lovely thing about gentle people and also a dangerous one, because the softness that answers real warmth answers counterfeit warmth just as readily. A light thread still holds fast.

If you are the gentle one, notice how fast your loyalty attaches and give it a slower second look. If someone has tied themselves to you cheaply, treat that thread as worth far more than it cost you.