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• Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Memorial Day, Men, Remembrance

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• Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

  Stanley Crouch

  Beauty, Media, Civilization

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• He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms around his neck and tumbling into pure sensation. The softness of his hair as I ran my fingers through it; his arms hands on my skin, caressing me. It felt so, so good. I'd been afraid that I'd never have this again--this sense of being so achingly alive that every nerve ending was on fire.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Kissing, Fire, Hair

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• Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

  Joan Baez

  Women, Giving, Feminist

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• Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Yield, Mind

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• Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Hands, Justice

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• Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

  William Benton Clulow

  Time, Distance, Events

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.160

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• If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

  Arturo Toscanini

  Music, Play, Want

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• I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.

  Nicole Kidman

  Tiny, Want, Littles

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• Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mother, Men, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press

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• Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Teaching, Self

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• Underneath my stiffened gown
  Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin

  Amy Lowell

  Women, Gowns, Marble

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fitness, Cancer, Exercise

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Spring, Expression

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• All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Artist, Grace

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

  Raquel Welch

  Funny, Women, Deep Thought

  "Fictional character: Hannie Caulder". "Hannie Caulder", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Flower, Heart

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• Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Inspirational, Humility, Catholic

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “Book of the foundations. Minor prose works. Poems. Documents. Indices”

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• The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Liberation, Divine Mercy

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, World

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

  Albert Camus

  Beauty, Art, Lying

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

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• The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Mind, Persuasion, States

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.95

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• If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Men, Doe

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.

  Moby

  Eye, Romantic Love, Family Love

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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