Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
“There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“A different day has come, though. I flinch less and less when I am touched. I don’t always see gentleness as the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Don't judge the gentle; their gentleness is stronger than your fears and angers. Don't judge those who have lost their gentleness; you… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The most beautiful and dependable people I have ever known are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggles, loss and have found… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“He had never taken a woman like Bride. One who wasn't biting and clawing at him as she demanded he please her.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can… — Laozi Copy Share Image
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to… — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of… — Sharon Anthony Bower Copy Share Image
“The enlightened person therefore tells the truth, speaks with warm gentleness when they do speak, and refrains from speaking when they have… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Why do you need to know that? Because until you know that Jesus was prosperous, you won't be either. You may have… — John Avanzini Copy Share Image
You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like cats… When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head;… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
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