“Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness. — Tina Howe Copy Share Image
Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit — McCallister Dodds Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot… — Paula Cole Copy Share Image
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
“We feel the things we need to know instead of say them. With my chest pressed to his back, forgiveness, love, understanding,… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
“To be aware of a tenderness so you can look. into the eyes of another and feel what strikes the strings is… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to… — Janusz Korczak Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong?” he asked, and I motioned for him to take a seat. He listened quietly as I explained what had happened.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“The death of Robert G. Ingersoll , on July 21, 1899, was one of the most widely -- noted events of that… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“I came to feel a tenderness for them all. This was something new to me. It gave me a curious pleasure to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image