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
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?… It's the courage of your own tenderness. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man… — Sally Struthers 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
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
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty which is, of course, a garden, which is a tenderness,… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge... — Rumi Copy Share Image
Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and… — Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Copy Share Image
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still… — Anais Nin 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
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
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
Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she… — Suzanne Braun Levine Copy Share Image
“(...) I knew I couldn't sleep with her. I don't know - in my small experience of women, I've found it to… — Robert McLiam Wilson Copy Share Image
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook… — Anonymous 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
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it;… — Samuel Johnson 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
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
