“Within an hour, I had gone from anguish at the thought of losing him in Scotland, to a strong desire to bed… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“My brain came alight with tenderness for her. I felt so sorry for everything. I yearned to embrace her, kiss her even,… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
“This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung… — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
“Love, she thought, should not come with such quick intensity. It should flow slowly, with tenderness and gentle feelings. It shouldn't stab… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“I watch him sleep because the tenderness I have for him is what I have left of everything I started with. My… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I could feel it in her, that volatile tenderness that could never forget injury. It was her weakness, her flaw-- that she… — Naeem Murr Copy Share Image
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“When I accept in the depth of my being that the ultimate accomplishment of my life is 'me' - the person I've… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Having become—with the passage of time—the anthropologist of my own experience, I have no wish to disparage those obsessive souls who bring… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened… — Thomas Malory Copy Share Image
“He kissed away a tear that slid down my cheek, and I wish he hadn’t, because my heart broke a little more… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle,… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality… — Dr. Mawde Royden Copy Share Image
Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not.… — Vinoba Bhave Copy Share Image
“To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We have no inherent holiness. We are holy as we are possessed by the Holy Presence. We are holy in His holiness,… — F. E. Marsh Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was easy-when romantic attraction was combined with hungry, unsated desire, they formed a glamorous, glittering bauble as fragile as… — Robyn Donald Copy Share Image
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands,… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will… — José Luís Peixoto Copy Share Image
“We find that David had the tenderness and the sensitivity of an artist. He was a musician and a songwriter. David did… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“Kept Burning and Distant” You return when you feel like it, like rain. And like rain you are tender, with the rain's… — Linda Gregg Copy Share Image
Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't mean to say that you shouldn't take care of your body, or want to keep it from dying. But it… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,--I mean good-nature,--are of daily… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
