Quotes About Softness

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

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.

You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the two best gifts: softness and illumination. Every

Someone said the softest things in the world overcome the hardest.

I meant I wanted only to touch you, to feel how soft you are, how eternally young.

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.

The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.

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

His eyes meet hers, and she gives him a sad little smile, half a curve of the lips that falls away softly.

Somehow, the softness in her deep gray eyes was worse than censure or a Queen's cold wrath.

Discovering fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart. I

Dante compares this language—which is like yours, when you come back to me intangibly—to the "perfumed panther," the mythical animal of medieval bestiaries. He adds, and I quote for all three of you: "Hearing the call of the panther, the other animals follow it wherever it goes, attracted by so much fragrant softness.

Soft, the snow falling/Steam spiraling from coffee/The slain cold and still

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

Arthur takes a seat beside her. The colored lights bounce off his eyeglasses and Louisa loses all interest in time-travel technology. The future and the past disappear. All she feels is the tension between two bodies. How his head had been in her lap. How her hand had been wrapped inside his. The tension leaks down her throat. The belly. The muscle. And something forged. A weld. A softness. A vagueness that is rather quickly being sharpened into a point aimed directly at Louisa's heart.

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

Ses yeux sont veloutés comme seuls les yeux sombres le sont, or les siens sont d'eau morte et de vase mêlées, rien n'y passe en ce moment qu'une douceur ensommeillée.

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We're looking for a softer orientation to life.

Evening was her special time of day. She gave the world three syllables and indeed I think she liked it so well for its tendency to smooth, to soften. She seemed to dislike the disequilibrium of counterpoising a roomful of light against a worldful of darkness. Sylvie in a house was more or less like a mermaid in a ship's cabin. She preferred it sunk in the very element it was meant to exclude.

Kindness is the antidote to everything. Just as water soothes fire, kindness calms how we burn each other from time to time. And under all the ways we burn and hurt, there's the soft and lasting presence we were born with, waiting to blossom in the midst of any trouble.

The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail…. Whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

at Silverbridge whom I went to see administered refreshment to me; — nay, he administered it with salutary violence," he said, affecting even to laugh. "And I am bound to speak well of him on behalf of mercies over and beyond that exhibited by the persistent tender of some wine. That I should find him judicious I had expected. What little I have known of him taught me so to think of him. But I found with him also a softness of heart for which I had not looked.