Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“You speak to me with the same sweet tenderness. We go to the same hang outs in our sleepy town. Your lips… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but… — Sandra Lee Bartky Copy Share Image
In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form… — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The weed crushed and pressed by the heavy rock may slowly and gently grow up anew helped by the fresh air, sunshine,… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
“Mary in Christianity, Isis in ancient Egypt, Demeter in Greece, Venus in Rome and Guan Yin in China have all functioned as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
“Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“The possibility that he really did harbor some attraction to her couldn't pierce her core. It wasn't in the realm of things… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
But please know, Jesus never lets you down. Please know that the love and tenderness of Mother Mary never lets you down.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality… — Dr. Mawde Royden Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not.… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as… — Robyn Donald Copy Share Image
We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy Presence. We are holy in His holiness,… — F. E. Marsh Copy Share Image
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“He kissed away a tear that slid down my cheek, and I wish he hadn’t, because my heart broke a little more… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
![“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dbb/brennan-manning-959_ambiguous_whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness_2805528.png)
