When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“Followers of Christ will not exhibit characteristics that are cheap and selfish, but in word, spirit, and action they will reveal the… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass… — Jodi Picoult 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
“It should, as Chekhov said, prepare us for tenderness. And in this regard it starts, I think, with intention… Our intention is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness -… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself. 'There is nothing to be compared to it. … — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“The sun spangled the big pond, and through the quivers of light, we watched scores of fat koi that swam there from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong?” he asked, and I motioned for him to take a seat. He listened quietly as I explained what had happened.… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
“My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can overcome and outlive them… — Louisa May Alcott 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
Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.” — Pearl S. Buck 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
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“All that interior violence and complication to defend themselves from the very tenderness.” — Susana Fortes Copy Share Image
Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take off your clothes and all is wiped… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“If I open my mouth My word would be of love and hope Tenderness completing me from inside out” — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
She gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness,… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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