Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions,
do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales
A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.
- Lao Tzu
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be gentle first with yourself -
if you wish to be gentle with others.
- Lama Yeshe
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Today's affirmation:
I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: The Oak and the Reeds - a fable by Aesop
Aesop: Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail
Tread Lightly
Be Gentle with Yourself
Gentleness
Christmas
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