Top 173 Soften Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.
What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
It's true for you to soften within, to let your heart open, to let your heart soften.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.
Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly!
Now that everyone's shooting digital they want the anamorphic to soften the look. You know, to make it more filmic.
Yoga will uplift you if you are feeling sluggish or down, relax you if you feel high-strung, and soften your edges if you are feeling angry.
Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.
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.
God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
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.
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.
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.
I've let my body soften. I've let it relax.
People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.
I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.
Someone told me I looked like a young Tonya Harding recently, as if 'young' would soften the blow.
I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.
Frankly, I'm mainly telling the story to myself. Thinking about audience is too daunting, and worst case, invites you to homogenize, to soften the hard edges of things.
The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.
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.
