It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to… — Friedrich Ruckert 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
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. — Mother Teresa 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
Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone...… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness. — Tina Howe 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
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
“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.” — James Gavin 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
One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
