Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness… — Hannah Harrington Copy Share Image
“She had a hand on his belt, ready to show him exactly what she had in mind for the night, when he… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
How kind is our Sacramental Jesus! He welcomes you at any hour of the day or night. His Love never knows rest.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“It isn’t violence that can break through our hearts. It isn’t force that binds us and keeps us together. Only tenderness has… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
“The rage of the Beast Lord was a terrible thing to behold. Some people stormed, some punched things, but Curran slipped into… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
“ Toquet, mah-tao-yo .” Claiming her lips with his to muffle her protests, he reveled in the sweet taste of her breath,… — Catherine Anderson 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
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There wasn't a lot of physical tenderness with my parents. There was plenty of love but we weren't into the hugging thing,… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
Love is illegal - but not hate. That you can do anywhere, anytime, to anybody. But if you want a little warmth,… — Lou Jacobi Copy Share Image
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity,… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“I love you because you're tender and sweet, you the hardest and sternest of men. And your sweetness and tenderness are such… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“With his four white paws tucked in and folded underneath his black-and-gray fur, he looked like a perfectly round cushion. I stroked… — Genki Kawamura Copy Share Image
