The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. — Lao Tzu
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Lao Tzu
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. — Lao Tzu
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere. — Ovid
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu
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
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
A woman should soften but not weaken a man. — Sigmund Freud
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. — John Stott
Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth. — Hafez
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. — Che Guevara
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man. — Darrin Patrick
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. — Shams Tabrizi
Short Soften Quotes
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. — Washington Irving
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. — Goldie Hawn
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. — William Congreve
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. — Alexander Pope
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. — Johan Huizinga
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health. — Thomas Jefferson
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. — Madame de Maintenon
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.' — Paul Walker
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness. — Helen Keller
Soften Image Quotes
Soften Your Heart Quotes
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
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. — Pema Chodron
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse. — Willie Aames
It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften. — John de Ruiter
Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people. — Christine Caine
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
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it. — Pema Chodron
Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them. — John de Ruiter
Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting. — Jack Kornfield
Soften Heart Quotes
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity. — Joseph Stalin
I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness. — Agnes of Rome
Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths. — Alexander von Humboldt
HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. — Ambrose Bierce
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
If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. That’s the true practice of peace. — Pema Chodron
This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind. — Pema Chodron
Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
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
Soften Up Quotes
Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails. — Edward Burne-Jones
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. — Mary Oliver
I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit. — Gemma Arterton
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day. — Catherynne M. Valente
The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair. — Margaret Mead
To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely. — Richard Matheson
Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories. — Lois Lowry
Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up. — Cinco Paul
Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart. — Walter Scott
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
Soft And Hard Quotes
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. — Lao Tzu
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt
God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet. — Jackie Pullinger
In every land, hardness is in the north of it, softness in the south, industry in the east, and fire and inspiration in the west. — Irish Proverbs
There aren't any hard women, only soft men. — Raquel Welch
Conflict is natural and can be healthy if handled in a constructive and positive manner - Soft on the person, hard on the problem. — William Ury
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world. — Chogyam Trungpa
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. — Kurt Vonnegut
Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of. — Johnny Bench
Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. — Jeff Buckley
Soft Quotes
If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi — Lewis Grizzard
How sad, a heart that
does not know how to love, that
does not know what it is to be drunk with love.
If you are not in love, how can you enjoy
the blinding light of the sun,
the soft light of the moon? — Omar Khayyam
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day. — Warsan Shire
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. — Henry David Thoreau
A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger." — Gary Smalley
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul. — John Keats
If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else. — Ann Landers
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. — Carl Rogers
May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you. — Helen Steiner Rice
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
Actions that soften life's quality should be identified, irrespective of whether they meet the classic addiction definition, aiming to help people improve. — Gary Brecka
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby
I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition. — Jamie Lee Curtis
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice. — Pema Chodron
Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day. — Carrie Newcomer
Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life. — Jeanne Achterberg
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. — Robert Louis Stevenson
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. — Jodi Picoult
Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive. — Dan John
I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.
My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay.
I will greet this day with love in my heart. — Og Mandino
Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring
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
Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. — James Allen
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. — Bryant H. McGill
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. — Pema Chodron
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross. — Hippolyte Taine
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards. — Babe Paley
And there certainly can be a softening because we're not looking to hurt people. We want people -- we have some great people in this country, and we have some great, great people in this country, so, but we're going to follow the laws of this country. — Donald Trump
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Close your mouth,
block off your senses,
blunt your sharpness,
untie your knots,
soften your glare,
settle your dust.
This is the primal identity. — Lao Tzu
Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice. — Saint John Chrysostom
The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you. — Mary Roach
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. — Charles Dickens
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