How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness… — Leonard Pitts Jr Copy Share Image
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Without apology or tenderness, he tells me that knowing my limits is more important than pushing them.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. — Denis Diderot 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
Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face… — Li-Young Lee 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
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
I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman… — Sylvia Plath 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
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Dangerous, she thought, this was so dangerous. Too many pieces of her in his hands. She had to hold something back, some… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take your clothes off and all is wiped… — Frank O'Hara 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
Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I thought I could fight it but the feeling was pulling me down,is this what they call love ?.until I realise that… — Trishmonnie Copy Share Image
“Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all… — Patrick Chamoiseau Copy Share Image
“With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always… — William Maxwell 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
The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Tenderness from empaths will be used against them time and time again by psychological abusers.” — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
