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Quotes About Softness

Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness
~ John Wooden
It's not emotion that makes him gentle; it's instinct. He can be gentle even when he feels no emotion; he can be gentle when touching something soft. The way you're careful when you touch a peach.
~ Unknown
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
Men should be like Kleenex...soft, strong, disposable.
~ Cher
Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Hence every teaching that flatters or indulges the flesh and teaches temporal things is not of God, because it is not a rod but a reed and softness of clothing (Matt. 11:7-8).
~ Martin Luther
Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.
~ Cher
Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I look out into the dark, which is made of velvet so soft and heavy you could gather it up in your hands if you weren't locked in.
~ Marya Hornbacher
Taste like pillows.
~ Unknown
And pillows," Cassiopeia ventured.
~ Unknown
But it had seemed, when Cory broke up with Greer, that she became like a piece of knotted wire. Where were the qualities he had loved in her? He had taken on some of them himself. Because of course everyone was soft and hard. Skeleton and skin. But women claimed for themselves the province of softness, which men cast off. Maybe it was easier to say you liked it in a woman. But really, maybe you wished you had it yourself.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Girls weren't weak. They had a softness sometimes, but not all the time.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Because of course everyone was so soft and hard. Skeleton and skin. But women claimed for themselves the province of softness, which men cast off. maybe it was easier to say you liked it in a woman. But really, maybe you wished you had it yourself.
~ Meg Wolitzer
There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Soft margins and wide peripheries unfocused, I don't give form to my appreciation, but sit quietly with a quality of blossoms that feels like light.
~ Unknown
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
~ Munshi Premchand
Goats are naught but bones and bleating, and their hair was not warm nor their bodies soft. Of course, there was the smell, too, bitter as overripe vinegar, intrusive as bile.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
~ Napoleon
And then there was her face: her white skin, her brown eyes, and her expression, so soft and beautiful; she looked as though she were constantly getting ready to ask a question. Even an immaculately crafted doll could not have been as lovely.
~ Natsuo Kirino
She slowly sinks into gentleness
~ Unknown
But this upland pass was the right place for remembering how, when I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness underneath every soft appearance.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting.
~ Osamu Dazai