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
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. — William James Copy Share Image
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and… — Maurice Bejart 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
“Clicking it off, he reached his gloved hand out to cup her cheek with a tenderness he’d never shown her before. “Courage,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she… — Suzanne Braun Levine Copy Share Image
“You return when you feel like it, like rain. And like rain you are tender, with the rain's inept tenderness. A passion… — linda gregg Copy Share Image
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“She realized that Rowan saw each of those thoughts and more as he reached into his tunic and pulled out a dagger.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
A good Judoka never anticipates his action in a match, but his mind is as clever as a polished mirror which enables… — Kyuzo Mifune Copy Share Image
“When we are in love, our love is too vast to be wholly contained within ourselves; it radiates outwards, reaches the resistant… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
Think schnitzel, and you usually think veal or pork: pounded into tenderness, battered, and fried to a golden magnificence. — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Your tenderness has pervaded into the very pore of my being. Last night I inhaled the fragrance of the moon!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“She could fade and wither- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kindness reveals concern and respect for others. Tenderness brings happiness and inner peace to the heart. — Humaira Copy Share Image
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body… — Anne Enright 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
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
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. — Theodor Adorno 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
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has… — Victor Hugo 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