Hosea Ballou: With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind, and loving…
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind, and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
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- When trust is low, communication becomes hard. When care is high, communication becomes healing.
- Care is learning what people need before deciding what you need to say.
- Communication is not a gift you admire. It’s a discipline you develop.
- Communication is not proven by what you said. It is proven by what was understood.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.