The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Jeff: When am I going to see you again? Lisa: [angry] Not for a long time... [softening] Lisa: at least not until tomorrow night.
If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.
They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.
In the course of this story, and very soon now, it will be necessary to make some disclosures about Mr. Krupper of a nature too coarse to be dealt with very directly in a work of such brevity. The grossly naturalistic details of a life, contained in ...
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.
It wasn't right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleaner and fabric softener
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.
May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.
Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.
How did you-" Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.
