“she was as unused to seeing tenderness in a man's eyes as she was to being caught off guard. Admiration? Amusement? Yes.… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
Tessa was laying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness… — Susan Fraser King Copy Share Image
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of you my body aches like an… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley 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
The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“In a moment of naked honesty, ask yourself, 'Do I wholeheartedly trust that God likes me'... in this moment, right now, right… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in… — James Finley Copy Share Image
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My love for you is like none other. So kind and tender, only rival was my mother. So babe, just pull me… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung… — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
“Love, she thought, should not come with such quick intensity. It should flow slowly, with tenderness and gentle feelings. It shouldn't stab… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even,… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image