What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Everything that I feel about her is all Tenderness & Passion, and there's not a day that goes by that I won't… — Rafael Vazquez Jr Copy Share Image
How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the… — Jane Austen 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
“It's truthfully difficult growing up a woman. When I was a girl, we lived in a small town for the most part… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and… — Glen Duncan 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
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Rachel was a girl who depended on small, recurrent rituals - that was one of the things he'd come to know about… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Begin with the soft smelted upturned heart-shaped mouth made for smiling a smile kept for kindness, tenderness, incapable of malice. Am I… — Craig Raine Copy Share Image
Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of… — Mervyn B. Arnold Copy Share Image
“His gaze was soft on my face, filled with a sudden tenderness that made my throat tight. "You're the greatest risk I've… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The essence of this practice is that when we encounter pain in our life we breathe into our heart with the recognition… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
