Softness Quotes

• We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Mind, Tough

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

  Laozi

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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• And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Healing, Bones, Filled

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin

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• Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

  Munshi Premchand

  Beauty, Ornaments, Needs

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• Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Strong

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• The air is all softness.

  John Keats

  Air

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

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• Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.

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• There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

  Juan Montalvo

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Justice

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• If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.

  John de Ruiter

  Inspirational, Future, Heart

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• When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.

  Vera Nazarian

  Tough Times, Important, Gentle

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• Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Heart, Humans, Fearlessness

  Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Sisterhood, Men

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• Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

  John de Ruiter

  Heart, Openness, Knows

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• I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Romantic, Lost Love, Love You

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

  Laozi

  Triumph, Principles, Mastery

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Beauty, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Crush, Children, Order

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• A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, Shows, Gentleness

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.43

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• I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happiness, Smile, Inspiration

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• The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

  Anais Nin

  Summer, Paws, Summer Days

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• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Views, Too Much

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• Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Heart, Thinking, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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