{"quotes":[{"text":"...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["beautiful","gentleness","love","snow","softness"],"id":40011,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"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!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["being-gentle","being-soft","epiphanies","gentleness","hardening-of-the-heart","inspirational-living","inspirational","softness","vulnerability","wisdom"],"id":57212,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["easy-living","luxury","paradise","softness","survivalism","weakness"],"id":78396,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Poems are soft kitten furs. Smoothing out the rough edges of my world.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["kittens","poems","poetry","poetry","rough","softness"],"id":86272,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"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.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["fighting","fighting-spirit","gentleness","innocence","inspirational-life","inspirational","life-and-living","school-of-life","softness"],"id":103438,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"He did not think of love as an eternally vigilant, blazing flame, which with its powerful, flickering glow shown into all the peaceful folds of life and in some fantastic way made everything seem bigger and stronger than it was. For him, love was more like the calm, smoldering ember that gives off an even heat from its soft bed of ashes and in the muted twilight tenderly forgets what is distant and makes what is near seem twice as close and twice as intimate.","author":"Jens Peter Jacobsen","tags":["love","passion","peaceful","realistic","softness"],"id":115054,"author_id":"Jens+Peter+Jacobsen"},{"text":"The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["caring","compassion","kindness","mercy","redemption","refuge","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","soft-hearts","softness"],"id":133004,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you so desperately need. The invisible hand will hold you in your wretched place until your last breath — unless you evolve. If you are cruel and ignorant the invisible fist will pound you into oblivion until you submit, humble yourself and soften your hard heart.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["cruelty","desperation","disheveled","emotions","evolve","humbleness","ignorance","invisibility","learning","lessons","oblivion","pain","sloppy","softness","submission","uncaring","ungratefulness"],"id":209430,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"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.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["acceptance","hiding","hurt","ignore","looking","rejection","respect","softness","suffering"],"id":244307,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.","author":"Victoria Erickson","tags":["gold","softness","strength"],"id":373464,"author_id":"Victoria+Erickson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}