Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love…

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

— John Stott

Any time you approach anything in fear and aggression or in self-preservation mode, you are going to scare people off. But if you go…

— Ron Hall

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that…

— Mark Twain

“The margrave turned toward her. Their eyes met. His expression softened.”

— Melanie Dickerson

“When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in…

— Katherine Hannigan

“It seemed that the years had softened her, or perhaps they'd hardened me”

— Cecilia Samartin

“So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled…

— Plato

“Grace softened a little. "Sorry. But they're just words. They don't mean anything.”

— Krystal Sutherland

“Having a plan softened by spine into the mattress, quelled the rising simmer within me, setting me right in the same way that reading…

— Miriam Gershow

“She sighed. “I can’t help it. I worry for you when you lead these patrols. I don’t sleep until you return." His features softened.…

— Grace Draven

“Tread lightly." Vulnerability softened Bron's voice, as if he'd told her he loved her.”

— Aubrie Dionne

But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

— Jack London

You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.

— Shannon Hale

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

— Miguel de Cervantes