quotes about Softness

last updated: November 28, 2023

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
-- Amy Lowell

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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

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Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
-- Chogyam Trungpa

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

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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

Source : 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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Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt

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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Source : "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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This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.
-- Louise Rennison

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Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
-- Maximilien Robespierre

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“In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.”
“If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.”
“The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their ***** to work everyday because they hate their job.”
“I love, therefore I am vulnerable.”

Source : Alan AtKisson (1999). “Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World”, Chelsea Green Publishing Company
“The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.”
“And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other's beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. That's not hard. It's really an easier and better way to live. And ultimately, it saves lives. Then again, it's not easy at all. It can be the hardest thing, because loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. I know many of you have struggled with this. I draw upon your strength and your support, and have, in ways you will never know.”

Source : Ellen Page's speech at the Human Rights Campaign's Time to Thrive conference at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.
“American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.”
“Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.”
“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.”