“Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What fears you, that you are unable to see the kindness in a stranger's smile, to feel the tenderness in a lovers… — Sonia Valencia Singh Copy Share Image
“Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he’s discovered a girl; for the first time he’s seen that even… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Your husband may not be a wealth of pregnancy information, but he is a wealth of 'you' information. He probably knows you… — Erin MacPherson Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice.… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away.… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He… — William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Copy Share Image
“in the afterglow of an evening rain i lay down in the grass and think of you my body aches like an… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My love for you is like none other. So kind and tender, only rival was my mother. So babe, just pull me… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in… — James Finley Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Why do I love the thought of you old? That first twinge of arthiritis in your knee is a thing I imagine… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I honestly think vulnerability is a beautiful thing: it's tenderness, authenticity, and risk-taking. It means you're living a life where the stakes… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler;… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image