Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants… — Geneen Roth
Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies… — Geneen Roth
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... — Teresa of Avila
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every… — Deepak Chopra
He views life with tenderness and determination. — Paulo Coelho
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by… — Jorge Luis Borges
You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know. — Allan Gurganus
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich
You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness. — Mother Teresa
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in… — Suzanne Braun Levine
People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten… — Meg Wolitzer
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal… — Anne Enright
My dearest dearest dear Albert sat on a footstool by my side and his excessive love and affection gave me feelings of heavenly love and… — Queen Victoria
Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch… — John Owen
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the… — Pema Chodron
It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly green, when buds ripened and blossoms appear… — Thomas Malory
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the… — August Kleinzahler
One must endure without losing tenderness. — Che Guevara
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures… — Robert Southey

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