Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint;… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.” — Susana Fortes Copy Share Image
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“Life is hard but it never loses its grace. If you aren't hard enough you cannot live but if you're not tender… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky 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
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
Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha… — John Donne Copy Share Image
