rough hands - quotes and descriptions to inspire creative writing

It is never the roughness of the hands but the temperament that matters. Show me a well tempered man and I see a great blessing. Gentleness, softness, comes from inner strength.

Those rough hands were my medication, my heart-song and my light, for that is love. Love compacts the senses, and as when stardust so compacted in the universe, a new star is born with its own gravity and radiant light.

Rough hands, soft heart, naked soul, that's how these hard workers are.

His rough hands were masterpieces, artwork built of a lifetime of stoic and practical love.