Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to… — Pema Chodron 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
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick 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
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke 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
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
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden 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
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take your clothes off and all is wiped… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting… — Mitch Albom 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
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
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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