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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

Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change. — Mark Twain

Even the softest and sweetest heart was made by design for extreme battle. — Bryant McGill

I respect softness and kindness not the power. — Debasish Mridha

Don't forget how to be gentle," she warned. "Don't let the hardness of the world steal the softness of your heart. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. — Munshi Premchand

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

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. — Donald Barthelme

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

I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow ... — John Geddes

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. — Juan Montalvo

Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness. — Debasish Mridha

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it ... — James Lusarde

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

If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive. — Liezi

His eyes reflected a softness I had already forgotten in America. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

All my brain could think about was pushing my lips against hers. I wanted to taste them, know how their softness felt against mine ... — Teresa Mummert

Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work - a quest that never ends. It demands everything from you - especially the truth. — Rick Riordan

Persimmons are not born soft,"
"But they are valued for their softness."
"Their ripeness. — Yiyun Li

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon

And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. — W.B.Yeats

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self. — John De Ruiter

His mouth was the only bit of softness on him. Wide and sensual, lips parted slightly in his drugged state, his mouth was profanely beautiful. — Lara Adrian

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

Wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind! — Mary Wollstonecraft

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart. — Martin Luther King Jr.

For the first time in my life, I felt a gentleness, a softness in the unfolding of each day. — Han Nolan

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

Make good the good in you ... and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness. — Jack London

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. — Tim O'Brien

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction. — Juliet Marillier

A few pounds show a lot on my body. But it's okay. I believe women look good with a bit of softness to them. — Elle Macpherson

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation. — C.S. Lewis

Like a flower, the magical softness of your voice touched my heart. — Debasish Mridha

softness overcomes hardness. — Mark Kurlansky

We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293). — Jack Kerouac

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. — Theodore Roosevelt

Have you ever noticed the softness of a kitten's feet? - they are like raspberries to hold in one's hand. — Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The firm of Strange had not been built on softness; what you stole from it, you were welcome to keep. — Keith Roberts

Love surrounds, softens and tires violence and force. — Bryant McGill

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

I found that the same softness which once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity... — Anais Nin

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life
we went soft, we lost our edge. — Frank Herbert

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other. — Lorraine Hansberry

I breathed in the memory of his lips, the softness of them, and how they felt tracing across my skin, leaving ripples of goosebumps in their wake. — Sarah Alderson

Every cell singing, begging for a rush of sensation only the press of male hardness against female softness could give. — Gena Showalter

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

Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows — John De Ruiter

I love the fabric of Genetic jeans. There's a softness. I always travel in them. It feels like you're in like your most comfortable pajamas. — Liberty Ross

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor

It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When — Madeleine L'Engle

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. — Steven Wright

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness. — Len Goodman

When girls use the brightness of their eyes or the softness of their skin, they have an uncommon advantage in getting what they want. — Anna Godbersen

We felt there was a creeping tepidness in music, a cloying softness, as if music were only a salve, not an instigator. It's — Carrie Brownstein

The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet. — Justin Cronin

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

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart. — Pema Chodron

Be a butterfly and always look for kindness, softness and beauties. — Debasish Mridha

Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold. — Victoria Erickson

I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

This man was no pampered gentleman, born to a life of softness. No, this man was a brawler, a scrapper, a street fighter. A survivor. — V.E. Lynne

Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? — John Milton

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

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

The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw. — Anais Nin

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination. — Anne Lamott

The air is all softness. — John Keats

You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant. — John De Ruiter

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. — John F. Kennedy

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world. — Sanober Khan

A soul can be saved. But it will take softness and depth and space. The world won't help much. — John Ortberg

Only hardness or only softness creates an inability to deal effectively with the fluctuations of life. — Seikichi Toguchi

Softness to traitors will destroy us all. — Maximilien Robespierre

Power of softness and kindness are the greatest. — Debasish Mridha

Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult. — Bryant McGill

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world. — Lillian Bassman

We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones. — Simon Van Booy

Softness was for kittens, pillows and pretty cashmere sweaters. Sex needed to be hard, hot and oh-so-rough around the edges. — Lauren Blakely