“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”
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“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
Sand and Foam (1926)
“He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.”
Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.
Curculio, Act I, scene 1, line 55
Curculio (The Weevil)
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Concession speech http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=572270, Washington D.C., June 7, 2008. <br class="br">Presidential campaign (January 20, 2007 – 2008)
“Sometimes grace is a ribbon of mountain air that gets in through the cracks.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
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“Just as at first the South wind makes gentle sport as it softly stirs the leaves and topmost branches of the woodland, but soon the unlucky ships are feeling all its terrible strength.”
Velut ante comas ac summa cacumina silvae
lenibus adludit flabris levis Auster, at illum
protinus immanem miserae sensere carinae.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica, Book VI, Lines 664–666
“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
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William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in Edinburgh (25 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 46.
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