Softness Quotes
Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.
Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.36, Shambhala Publications
John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.43
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.207, Macmillan
Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.
Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.58, Rutgers University Press
