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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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Galatians
5:22
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Contribution #4037
The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.
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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”
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It was the love of love,
the love that swallows up all else,
a grateful love,
a love of nature, of people,
of animals,
a love engendering
gentleness and goodness
that moved me
and that I saw in you.
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I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
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If you have nothing nice to say about a person . . . don't say it.
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My mother always said this to us as we grew up.
Contribution #3109
Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.
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The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with him. A tyrant father will have liars for his children; do you know that? A lie is born of tyranny upon the one hand and weakness upon the other, and when you rush at a poor little boy with a club in your hand, of course he lies.
I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.
Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.
The spiritual warrior's discipline is gentleness. Asserting gentleness in all spheres of life, non-violence and peace are achieved.
Softness overcomes hardness.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 208
Published by Barnes & Noble Books
, New York
, 2003
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Contribution #1614
Our problems are not solved
by physical force,
by hatred,
by war
Our problems are solved
by loving kindness
by gentleness,
by joy
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1456
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good--and how he treats people who can't fight back.
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Brilliance: Uncommon Voices from Uncommon Women
by Susan Scott Dan Zadra
Page 60
Published by Compendium Publishing
, Lynnwood, WA, USA
, 2005
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Contribution #1407
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possesions of no one race or religion.
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
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Matthew
5:5
Version or Translation NASV
Published by Foundation Press
Published in LaHabra, USA
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Contribution #850
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Contribution #319
Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
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J. Masai
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Contribution #318
Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.
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Philippians
4:5
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Contribution #316
What does gentleness look like in a person?
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