The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
“Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one… — C. K. Williams Copy Share Image
And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kindness is like a warm blanket of snow, softly covering and gently touching the heart.” — Heather Wolf Copy Share Image
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy. — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of… — Noel Coward 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
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
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
