Animal Quote by Laozi

Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such…

— Stanley Hauerwas

How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing…

— Mark Helprin

“We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we…

— Gary Kowalski

“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity…

— John Keegan

Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

— Anonymous

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

— Leo Rosten

“Our hearts get hardened to the ways of the world, and we tend to forget that often our day is filled with companionship with…

— Patrick Davis

“The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced…

— Jocelyn Soriano

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor…

— Homer

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

— George Eliot

“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they…

— Tadeusz Rózewicz

“When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.”

— Kay Arthur