Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“...when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.” — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“We don’t need to take off our pants and stand naked in the snow to experience the harshness of life; a clever… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a mixture of impertinence, disobedience, indiscipline, rudeness, harshness, and a self-assertive nature. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I think Oprah's [winfrey] learned from me that it's OK to be harsh on people because in one's harshness you can see… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
“So let me get this straight, you are telling me it's a harsh world, and using this as an excuse to add… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I haven't done anything particularly harsh. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character;… — Eugenie de Guerin Copy Share Image
The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Back onto their horses, and shortly thereafter word had come around from the command units that any soldier brawling over any matter… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
“Harshness, gruffness, and sternness are not effective in shaping a child’s will. Likewise, constant whacking and threatening and criticizing are destructive and… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of this very contemptuous pride. It stops us from listening to… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service. — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not… — Omar N. Bradley Copy Share Image
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