Softness Quotes

“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.”
― Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being

“It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break. It was an epiphany I had today and I just wonder why it took me so very, very long to see it! You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break; but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms and fight. Many of us are. The art lies in knowing when to wield those arms and when to put them down. I don't think it's a matter of pretending to be ideally unharmed by life and untouched by darkness; because that is hypocrisy. Rather, I think it is a matter of being true to your truth and learning when to fight and learning when to be soft. Hopefully, our soft moments in life will largely outweigh, outrank, and outrun our fighting.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“If I told you the few things keeping me alive,
Don’t run, don’t laugh, don’t cry.
Just forgive me for being soft in life,
I am one of those things that die”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“You are the softness of the morning dew!”
― Avijeet Das

“Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. Sturdy was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach. Wore eyeglasses you wanted to grind underfoot like a butterfly. He talked like a white college boy, read books when he didn't have to, and mined them for uranium to power his own personal A-bomb. Still--sturdy.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“We put terrible pressure on our minds. When we tighten them or harden our views or beliefs, we lose all the softness and flexibility that makes for real shelter, belonging, and protection.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara [Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“Why does society boast about hearts made of stone?

Like something unfeeling and frozen is superior to something warm and beating.

-- I will keep my bleeding heart”
― L.E. Bowman, The Evolution of a Girl

“Maybe love wasn’t always loud and obvious. Maybe sometimes it crept up quietly, disguised as laughter and late-night talks and a friend who never let go.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“It wasn’t a rush of infatuation. This was quieter. Warmer. Safe.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“Stepping into something new. Something that, for the first time in a long while, felt like hope.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“I can be a better boyfriend than him.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“Healing starts not with shouting louder, but with learning to hold softer.”
― Andrew Browski, Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language

“Love doesn’t always need answers. Sometimes, it just needs presence.”
― Andrew Browski, Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language

“Don’t love me louder. Just hold me softer.”
― Andrew Browski, Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language

“Some things don’t need fixing — only holding.”
― Andrew Browski, Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language

“You don’t need to be perfect to be held. Just willing.”
― Andrew Browski, Hold Me Differently: For Him and For Her — When Love Needs a New Language

“What if your softness is your greatest strength?”
― Moses Peraza, ROOTED: The Root. The Rise. The Overflow

“You can’t save someone who thinks your kindness is a trap.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“It wasn’t heartbreak. It wasn’t betrayal. It was the slow death of something that could’ve mattered, if the world hadn’t gotten to him first.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“It was beautiful in the strangest way. Slow. Fragile. Like it didn’t know if it had permission to live.”
― Arabella Sveinsdottir, Where The Cicada Sleeps: A Diary-Style Portrait of Girlhood, Betrayal, and the Quiet Violence of Being Misunderstood

“Sharing your emotions isn't a sign of weakness--it's a sign of strength.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Embrace sensitivity. Don't let a world that's frightened of soft men succeed in breaking you. We have too many broken men. We need men like you, men whose strength comes from being gentle.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“You’re allowed to want peace and softness, even if you don’t know how to hold it yet.”
― Anca-Valeria Bancila, My Last Week

“let me stay tender-hearted, despite despite despite”
― Chen Chen

“May your kindness become a refuge for others — a warm light in a cold world, reminding them that goodness still exists. May your words soothe what is wounded, and your presence restore what is weary. And when the world seems too heavy to hold, may your own heart receive the same tenderness you so freely offer.”
― An Marke

“Even a single act of kindness can change the course of a day, a life, or a heart. So may you walk gently through this world, carrying your light with quiet grace — a living reminder that kindness, once awakened, has the power to heal us all.”
― An Marke

“Bring your murmurs to my ears, for a tender heart is a fragrant flower. This softness is the blossom of life in this world of rocks. This tenderness is a box of treasures in a world of dust.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“We are often taught that strength means unyielding determination, staunch opinions, and unbreakable resolve. ... Softness does not mean weakness. It means being open to change, receptive to others, and compassionate toward ourselves. ... A rigid mindset might break under unexpected pressure; a flexible one bends and recovers . ... Like bamboo in the wind, soft strength bends but does not break”
― Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"