Tenderness Quotes
439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He views life with tenderness and determination.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.
— Allan Gurganus
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.
— Mother Teresa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One must endure without losing tenderness.
— Che Guevara
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Tenderness Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 439 Tenderness Quotes, led by these top contributors: