Softening Quotes
39 Softening quotes by 37 unique authors
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure…
— Whittaker Chambers
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...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a…
— Deepak Chopra
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There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them,…
— Lord Byron
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New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill.
— Anderson Cooper
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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has…
— Philip Gulley
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Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them.
— John de Ruiter
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Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing…
— Jane Austen
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts...
— Pema Chodron
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Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust…
— Jeanne Achterberg
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Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening…
— Sara Wiseman
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By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you…
— Marianne Williamson
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In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself,…
— Nathaniel Dorsky
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We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of…
— Alan Keyes
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial…
— Alan Greenspan
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I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it…
— Bobby Flay
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
— Goldie Hawn
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
— George Orwell
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My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was…
— Stevie Smith
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I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try…
— Anais Nin
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We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to…
— Bailey White
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