“There is intimacy in pain. Anyone who has comforted a sufferer knows it—the helpless tenderness, the embrace and murmur and slow rocking… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons… — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
They dream of men with gentle hands, eloquent with tenderness, fingers that brushed along a cheek, that outlined open lips in the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense… — Noy Holland Copy Share Image
“ Toquet, mah-tao-yo .” Claiming her lips with his to muffle her protests, he reveled in the sweet taste of her breath,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Wherever I went in my life, I met people who wanted to gobble up something new. Gobble up a new car. Gobble… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
“He would not kiss her mouth or allow her to caress him in tenderness. He broke his fierce silence only to whisper… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
“Caro sat without speaking, turning toward him her look that was neither sullen nor expectant but soberly attentive; and, once, a glance… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“The Everything and Nothing of Money The Legacy Letters By Carew Papritz Summer, and you are the first man and the first… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm a very immoral person," I answered. "When I'm really fond of anyone, though I deplore his wrongdoing it doesn't… — William somerset maugham Copy Share Image
“She came quickly over to me and held out her hand. I looked at her full of distrust. Was she doing this… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everything that I feel about her is all Tenderness & Passion, and there's not a day that goes by that I won't… — Rafael Vazquez Jr Copy Share Image
There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Jesus has no tenderness toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in service to Him. If God brings to… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
