We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all… — Patrick Chamoiseau Copy Share Image
“With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. — Ida Lupino Copy Share Image
“The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Hardships are part of the journey too. I mete them out ever so carefully, in just the right dosage, with a tenderness… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“When at last Hunter drew back for air, his dark eyes were cloudy with tenderness. He smiled a slow, thoughtful smile and,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“When I turned toward the hurt in the silence, I entered a kind of tenderness that was not sore, not wounded, but… — Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Copy Share Image
“Dangerous, she thought, this was so dangerous. Too many pieces of her in his hands. She had to hold something back, some… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage… — Thomas J. Sergiovanni Copy Share Image
If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The heart enveloped in the tenderness of God passes that tenderness around indiscriminately, making no distinction between the worthy and the unworthy.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles” — Deborah Heiligman Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
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