“You’re still holding my arm.” “I know.” So this was it, she thought, and struggled to keep her voice. “Should I ask… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Tenderness will win hearts so hardened that nothing else can move them. Truth spoken in love goes directly to the heart of… — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
“I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide. If… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“I could feel it in her, that volatile tenderness that could never forget injury. It was her weakness, her flaw-- that she… — Naeem Murr Copy Share Image
“When I accept in the depth of my being that the ultimate accomplishment of my life is 'me' - the person I've… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Having become—with the passage of time—the anthropologist of my own experience, I have no wish to disparage those obsessive souls who bring… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
“Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of 'you' information. He probably knows you… — Erin MacPherson Copy Share Image
“every morning i see a cup of coffee in front of my sleepy eyes but i am starting to see things differently,… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Watching him, she was, for the first time in her life, appreciative of the male form, the smooth play of muscle in… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“I watch him sleep because the tenderness I have for him is what I have left of everything I started with. My… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It's truthfully difficult growing up a woman. When I was a girl, we lived in a small town for the most part… — C. JoyBell C 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