Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or…

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

— Joseph Addison

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Either you soften your ego, or the world will do it for you. Choose!”

— Bert McCoy

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

— Helen Keller

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to…

— Brene Brown

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the…

— Yehuda Berg

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a…

— Mary Oliver

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

— Roger L'Estrange

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…

— Mandy Ingber

Surround you with pop fantasies just slightly out of reach to soften all the blows of your forced daily routine.

— Dead Kennedys

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't…

— Joe Frazier

“May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.”

— Charlene Costanzo

“These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…”

— Jane Austen