Top 93 Quotes About Softens
#1. Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Joseph Joubert
#2. Memories are often pruned and shaped by an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.
Jonathan Gottschall
#3. Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
John Adams
#4. Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#5. A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits
Napoleon Bonaparte
#6. I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.
Koren Zailckas
#7. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?
Peter Hobbs
#8. As self-possessed as he is, when he's tired from working too hard, his whole demeanor softens with vulnerability ... which makes me want to tuck him right beneath my heart and hold on tight.
Nina Lane
#9. He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.
Chris Crutcher
#10. For the rest of my life?" His voice softens. "Do you want that, Ella May? Do you want me eternally, infinitely, forever, till death do us part?
Jessica Sorensen
#11. As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.
Margaret Cho
#12. The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
Adam Clarke
#14. Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this burden Hush
Gayle Forman
#15. Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.
Mark Epstein
#16. Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.
Marianne Williamson
#17. Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
#18. Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
Henepola Gunaratana
#19. My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
Michele Bachmann
#20. The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.
Marian Deegan
#21. Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.
Bryant McGill
#22. Grief doesn't kill, love doesn't kill; but time kills everything, kills desire, kills sorrow, kills in the end the mind that feels them; wrinkels and softens the body while it still lives, tots it like a medlar, kills it too at last.
Aldous Huxley
#23. I love the idea that more people would read short fiction. I think it's such a humanizing form. It softens the boundaries between people.
George Saunders
#24. My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're ten years old?'
He crosses his arms. Frowns. 'I'll be twelve in two years.'
I think I already love this kid.
Tahereh Mafi
#25. You're the girl you take out to dinner. Get the good champagne. You pay her attention. Buy her some shit that softens her up and makes her happy. Then you hope all that sweet turns wild when you get her in bed.
Kristen Ashley
#26. When your heart softens and opens, your being becomes matter in your self. That is the change of matter and what matters to you in your self will change.
John De Ruiter
#27. Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#28. Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
Pindar
#29. At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
Tom Selleck
#30. There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Benjamin Disraeli
#31. Summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows ...
John Geddes
#33. It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.
Lord Chesterfield
#34. In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.
Michelle Sagara West
#35. Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
Napoleon Hill
#36. Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.
William Shakespeare
#37. Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.
Edward Burne-Jones
#38. I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.
Dave Barry
#39. We usually say things we mean when we speak without thinking; they just tend to get us in more trouble because they lack the editing that softens the blow or avoids the point.
Christin Lovell
#40. Charles Dickens said, It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens the temper - so cry away.
Jan Karon
#42. I guess it could be seen as a form of rebellion, but (my dad) is pretty supportive. He's knows I'm just an idiot, so I think that softens it a little bit.
Daniel Tosh
#43. Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
Pema Chodron
#44. His deep chuckle curls up on a tail of smoke. "Does it ever disarm you, Alyssa ... how well we see through one another? It does me." His voice softens on the admission - a depth of vulnerability he doesn't often use.
A.G. Howard
#45. Bea is the only good thing I've ever done in my life,' he said. 'Take care of her for me.'
My father went with him to the door and watched him walk away down Calle Santa Ana, with that sadness that softens men who are aware that they are growing old together.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow.
Bryce Anderson
#48. If you want the waves to touch you softly, have a walk on the sea coasts; if you want the life to touch you softly, have a walk on the reason's coasts, because reason is a shield that softens the strokes of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. Pets bring vital energy to our homes and lives. Pets communicate many messages about love and connection. Care tenderly for all pets throughout their precious lives. The interspecies dance of love softens and expands the heart.
Laura Staley
#51. 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
#52. A snowfall softens all the hard noises and hard corners. It's a natural liar. I saw the sky sprinkle down a hundred, a thousand little white lies, and decided I didn't owe Orion anything.
Marie Rutkoski
#53. Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
John Armstrong
#54. As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.
Clayton M Christensen
#55. If you want to know what are the events which cast their shadow over the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, look to see when and how the shadow lifts. What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?
James Joyce
#57. Long may it remain in this mixed world a question not easy of decision, which is the more beautiful evidence of the Almighty's goodness, the soft white hand formed for the ministrations of sympathy and tenderness, or the rough hard hand which the heart softens, teaches, and guides in a moment.
Charles Dickens
#58. I'm terrified to pose this next question, but I need to know. "Do you feel differently about me now?"
His face softens. "You're still you. The same girl I fell in love with. Nothing has changed.
Siobhan Davis
#59. As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#60. His expression softens, his hand running through my hair, over my shoulder, down my arm. "Stop pretending I'm not what you need.
Karina Halle
#61. Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.
Robert Genn
#63. The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.
Pierre Bayle
#64. The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
Conor Oberst
#65. Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
Mark Haddon
#66. The word of God protects the soul, it deepens the roots of faith and it softens the hearts of His people.
Euginia Herlihy
#67. Time helps too, you know. It softens the edges, but memories almost always slice you open a little.
Joe Hart
#68. Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force.
Bryant McGill
#69. Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It's beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand.
Isaac Marion
#70. The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness when uttered in accents that breathe love to the last sigh.
Joseph Addison
#71. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.
Egon Friedell
#72. I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
Gary Allan
#73. This kind of beauty softens you and expands you, which is good, but of course it makes you vulnerable to all sorts of horrible things, like, oh, feelings. And being in your body.
Anne Lamott
#74. Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home.
Patti Davis
#75. Love and Loyalty
If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
Louisa May Alcott
#76. Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you're misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell.
Miranda July
#78. Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.
Janey Colbourne
#79. Longing, because I miss her. I miss talking to her as me.
Lust greater than I've ever known, because we're like this, it's the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and it's a need that's in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes.
Penelope Douglas
#80. Cold stabilization has these benefits, however: it gets rid of the crystals, which is nice in a cosmetic sense. It reduces the acidity slightly and softens the wine. The latter benefit is the chief one.
Jeff Cox
#81. It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
#82. His angry expression softens, and then he shoves my shoulder playfully.
"Hey!" I push him back, to which he retaliates until I'm finally smiling.
I love how we can do that
break through the misery to always find each other.
Suzanne Young
#83. The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.
Theodoret
#84. Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
Thomas S. Monson
#85. He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.
Lauren Groff
#86. Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.
Andrew Miller
#87. Yet despite how he's drawn to danger, how it thrives within him, or maybe because of it, the dark and wicked side of me softens at the feel of his lips on my skin.
A.G. Howard
#88. Kindness is the music that softens every heart and fills it with ineffable joy.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
Mark Twain
#91. Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage.
Samuel Johnson
#92. This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
Susan Griffin
#93. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death.
Amy Harmon
