Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'
If we can soften our hearts, and if we can access the pure and simple aspect of our nature, then we can regain the realization that everything we need is already inside us and anything is attainable.
Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
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 experience it.