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Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness
- John Wooden
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
- Marianne Williamson
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
- Job 41:3
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
- CS Lewis
One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The
- Theodore Roosevelt
Kids are soft these days, period, end of the story in every respect. People coddle them too much. I'm sick of that; it's irresponsible parenting. Taking care of them is one thing, but turning little boys into little girls because you're coddling them so much, kids need to have experiences on their own.
- Bill Goldberg
I've had only two regular women. I liked the small breakable thing inside each one. Whatever their personality, smarts, or looks, something soft lay inside each. Like a bird's breastbone, shaped and chosen to wish on. A little V, thinner than bone and lightly hinged, that I could break with a forefinger if I wanted to, but never did. Want to, I mean. Knowing it was there, hiding from me, was enough.
- Toni Morrison
I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.
- Dolly Parton
I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
- Jennifer Lopez
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
- John Stott
People are turning away from Christianity today not because it is too hard but because it is too soft.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.
- Anne Lamott