Tenderness Quotes

439 Tenderness quotes by 318 unique authors

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and… — Frida Kahlo
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept… — Elizabeth Gaskell
It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even… — Pema Chodron
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. — Swami Vivekananda
In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of… — Edward Gibbon
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man… — Bertrand Russell
All women are born dancers in the sense that natural movement becomes their body and grows out of their instinctive feeling for womanhood, motherhood and… — Nelly Mazloum
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. — Maurice Bejart
Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare… — David A. Bednar
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not… — Saint Bernard
The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for… — Marianne Williamson
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. — George Eliot
There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying… — Robert Hass
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.… — Samuel Johnson
Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love .... kindness is goodwill, kindness says I… — Randolph Ray
SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this… — Ambrose Bierce
A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes
Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps… — Randolph Ray
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering… — Unknown Author
Tenderness is the repose of Passion. — Joseph Joubert
The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its… — Giuseppe Mazzini
This is why men and women do not always find it easy to maintain straightforward relations. Misunderstandings can arise: for example, a girl will more… — Meicee

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