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
“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
“You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).' Emma Darwin to husband Charles” — Deborah Heiligman Copy Share Image
“The heart enveloped in the tenderness of God passes that tenderness around indiscriminately, making no distinction between the worthy and the unworthy.” — Brennan Manning 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
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
“To be aware of a tenderness so you can look. into the eyes of another and feel what strikes the strings is… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our… — Leontyne Price Copy Share Image
Sometimes, this broken heart gives birth to anxiety and panic, sometimes to anger, resentment and blame. But under the hardness of that… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A husband should always try to treat his wife with the greatest courtesy and respect, holding her in the highest esteem. He… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
“We feel the things we need to know instead of say them. With my chest pressed to his back, forgiveness, love, understanding,… — Kennedy Ryan Copy Share Image
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man… — Sally Struthers Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide. If… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Tenderness will win hearts so hardened that nothing else can move them. Truth spoken in love goes directly to the heart of… — Alexander Strauch Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“You’re still holding my arm.” “I know.” So this was it, she thought, and struggled to keep her voice. “Should I ask… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within… — Shannon L. Alder 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
I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and… — Greg Boyle 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
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
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty… — Takuya Asakura Copy Share Image
Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz Copy Share Image
A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy. — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
