Soft Quotes

“Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned the side of my face against his ruff and remembered the golden wood he had shown me so long ago. I remembered the way the yellow leaves, the color of Sam’s eyes, fluttered and twisted, crashing butterflies, on their way to the ground. The slender white trunks of the birches, creamy and smooth as human skin. I remembered Sam standing in the middle of the wood, his arms stretched out, a dark, solid form in the dream of the trees. His coming to me, me punching his chest, the soft kiss. I remembered every kiss we’d ever had, and I remembered every time I’d curled in his human arms. I remembered the soft warmth of his breath on the back of my neck while we slept.
I remembered Sam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.

Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“With callused hands
i tasted
the softness of the moon

in the coldest winds
i discovered
my soul's
warmest fireplace

in the roughness
of his stubble
the tenderest love.”
― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

“Watching my parents I've learnt a lesson many do not recognize. True love is not signaled by romantic, candle light dinners, red roses glistening with dew, or even Valentine's day celebrations. While these things may accompany our feelings, love is truly more than all those! Love is being with your spouse even when its not pleasing. Sometimes, love is walking down the hall, with your spouse hanging onto your shoulders and walking at a turtle's pace down the hall, just because surgery made life a burden. Love is patient, love is kind, love is Jesus! May we always remember love is not always tied in bows!”
― Mary Kate

“love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

“Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind”
― Munia Khan

“Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
― Mike Norton

“The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, isn't it?”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“My trews may be soft, lass, he thoughts, but what's in them isn't.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Kiss of the Highlander

“...early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills.”
― Alice Hoffman, Here on Earth

“Sometimes life is hard ... so we have to squeeze it, touch it, play with it, and make it soft like a dough! Now it's soft enough to be shaped in any way we want! Keep moving, touching life, as this will keep it smooth and fun!”
― Karina Fonseca Azevedo

“I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“To be of honey and flames....diamond and dust...tender and fierce....laughter and sobs...is to know softness and courage in the same skin...for stitched are they in the fabric of womanhood.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“To remain tender after passing through years so lonesome, to journey into the forgotten place, to remember the forsaken love is to remain soft though the tides have left the shores......”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“For Sherpas here, the land is everything. Losing two of our most brute, bold men within the first week reminds me that Everest is a spirit to be honored, not a peak to conquer.

I've been asking myself if I'm strong enough to keep up, to make it to the top, but maybe that's the wrong question. Maybe I should be asking if I'm soft enough to listen. To yield. To trust something deep inside, something in my bloodline, my heritage, that undercuts logic and strength.”
― Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, In the Shadow of the Mountain

“Because it was all you were willing to give me. And I'd rather having you hating me than not have you at all.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“We never know what’s going on in people’s lives, and the best option is to be always soft and kind.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Both in love and hate, soft is my character, hot is my attitude.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“It took a lot not to blurt out that this, right here in Warren's arms, was his favorite spot in the whole wide world.”
― Vanora Lawless, Twisted Tome

“Every man has to die somewhere,' he said softly, and went off to make up his blankets.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“Arent played his fiddle softly.
'Why didn't you come to dinner tonight?' she asked him, surprising herself with her candour.
Arent flicked her a glance, then returned his attention to his playing.
'Did you want me there?'
She bit her lip, only able to nod.
'Then I'll come tomorrow,' he said softly.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“If you want to know what it's like to survive hell and still come out shining brighter than the sun, just look into the eyes of a woman who has survived intense damage and refused to allow it to destroy her softness.”
― Nikita Gill

“His hands graze her hips on either side, his dark eyes glued to her lips. "You know what your problem is?"
Eden's knees tremble as a wet heat pools between her legs. God, what is even happening right now? "What?" she rasps.
"You're too soft."
"What's wrong with being soft?"
Alexander's lips whisper across hers. It's not quite a kiss, but it's pretty damn close. She can feel his breath against her cheeks as he speaks, the tips of their noses bumping lightly against each other.”
― Katrina Kwan, Knives, Seasoning, & A Dash of Love