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“Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.”

Discipline Gentle Gentleness

Book:Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life

Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life

“But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.”

Source: Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.”

Ifs Age Law Liberty Youth Discipline Educational Criminals Gentle Strict Dungeons Strict Laws

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.”

Want Children Dog Masters Discipline Demand Secure Gentle Live By Rules To Live By

Book:The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

“It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.”

Ifs Way Mother Father Names Given Bits Dark Known Break Sun Taught Discipline Depression Understood And Love Horse Teeth Gentle Beast Temperament Unbroken

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison