It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Every gay reader understands the secret self that is full and wonderful and has longing and tenderness and a desire for connection… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
We are hungry for tenderness, in a world where everything abounds we are poor of this feeling which is like a caress… — Alda Merini Copy Share Image
That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Watching him, she was, for the first time in her life, appreciative of the male form, the smooth play of muscle in… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
All of us must care for life, cherish life, with tenderness, warmth...to give life is to open (our) heart, and to care… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“every morning i see a cup of coffee in front of my sleepy eyes but i am starting to see things differently,… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love withsomeone, but that you “had… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of… — Barbara Degenevieve Copy Share Image
“Yesterday in the restaurant, she’d seen his sex appeal and roughness. At her house, she’d seen his danger. This morning, at the… — Barbara Samuel Copy Share Image
Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“You speak to me with the same sweet tenderness. We go to the same hang outs in our sleepy town. Your lips… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Jesus has no tenderness toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in service to Him. If God brings to… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh 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
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
“Once when he was still young, I saw a bit of his scalp showing through his hair and I was afraid. But… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy.… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
But please know, Jesus never lets you down. Please know that the love and tenderness of Mother Mary never lets you down.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“The possibility that he really did harbor some attraction to her couldn't pierce her core. It wasn't in the realm of things… — Courtney Maum Copy Share Image
“...she thought with pity of all the men and women who were not light-hearted when they loved, who were cold, who were… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
![“[My grandmother] was so humble of heart and so gentle that her tenderness for others and her disregard for herself and her own troubles blended in a smile which, unlike those seen on the majority of human faces, bore no trace of irony save for herself, while for all of us kisses seemed to spring…” quote by Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/059/marcel-proust-114_human-faces_my-grandmother-was-so-humble-of-heart-an_1373469.jpg)
![“Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused” quote by Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbb/brennan-manning-959_ambiguous_whenever-i-allow-anything-but-tenderness_2805528.png)
