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
What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I’m sitting… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell 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
Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“When at last Hunter drew back for air, his dark eyes were cloudy with tenderness. He smiled a slow, thoughtful smile and,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When I look at Jesus' warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“All the expressions that are possible crossed its face, as if its thoughts were wise and limitless one moment, daft and animal… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. — Randolf S Bourne Copy Share Image
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Despite all the loving and caring relationships in the world, there is nothing more loving than the feel of my mother's hand… — Jonathan Tali Copy Share Image
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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
There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
“love is not just excitement, tenderness, feeling special; it is also a bone-crushing reality of pain.” — Melissa A. Hanson Copy Share Image
While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint … Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
![“He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.” quote by Marlene Dietrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/988/marlene-dietrich-4460_gentle_he-ernest-hemingway-is-gentle-as-all-rea_1241274.jpg)
