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Tenderness is a virtue. Votes: 6

Oliver Goldsmith

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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Votes: 6

Marlene Dietrich

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Tenderness is the rest of passion. Votes: 6

Joseph Joubert

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Tenderness is the infancy of love. Votes: 6

Antoine Rivarol

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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Votes: 6

Jane Austen

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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. Votes: 6

Marlene Dietrich

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. Votes: 6

Victor Hugo

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The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Votes: 6

Victor Hugo

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Votes: 6

Khalil Gibran

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When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. Votes: 6

Louis Pasteur

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Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures. Votes: 6

Thomas de Quincey

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Try a little tenderness ... Votes: 4

Sara Zarr

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We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. Votes: 4

Frederick William Robertson

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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness. Votes: 4

William James

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Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. Votes: 4

Rumi

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. Votes: 4

Henry Fielding

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. Votes: 4

Robert Frost

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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Votes: 4

Aaron Eckhart

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. Votes: 4

George Eliot

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. Votes: 4

Maya Angelou

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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. Votes: 4

Mo Udall

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. Votes: 4

Salman Rushdie

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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. Votes: 4

Chogyam Trungpa

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Votes: 4

Henri Nouwen

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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity. Votes: 3

David

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Tenderness, mercy and love, we all need more of. Votes: 3

Heather Wolf

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Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. Votes: 3

William Faulkner

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The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands. Votes: 3

Carolyn Forche

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Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. Votes: 3

Theodor Adorno

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Votes: 3

Kahlil Gibran

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Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife Votes: 3

Howard W. Hunter

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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. Votes: 3

John Ruskin

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Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. Votes: 3

Michel Houellebecq

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Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. Votes: 3

Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

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The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. Votes: 3

Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

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Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. Votes: 3

Ellen Key

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Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was. Votes: 3

Laurel Nakadate

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SMILE Is Not Just A Word.... It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD.... So SMILE ALWAYS.... That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE.... Votes: 3

Muhammad Imran Hasan

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Tenderness and RotTenderness and rotshare a border.And rot is anaggressive neighborwhose iridescencekeeps creeping over.No lessonscan be drawnfrom this however.One is nottwo countries.One is not meatcorrupting.It is importantto stay sweetand loving. Votes: 3

Kay Ryan

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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord. Votes: 3

Joseph Addison

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I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?" Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. Votes: 3

Sylvia Plath

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Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. Votes: 3

Oliver Goldsmith

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Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness. Votes: 3

Brennan Manning

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Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought. Votes: 3

John Adams

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Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and Âtis Injustice to infringe her Laws. Votes: 3

Michel de Montaigne

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I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ... Votes: 3

Katherine Philips

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The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh. Votes: 3

Jack Kornfield

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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union Votes: 3

Rollo May

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Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. Votes: 2

Robert Gottlieb

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Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. Votes: 2

Rollo May

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I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. Votes: 2

Brigitte Bardot

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I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. Votes: 2

Ethel Waters

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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. Votes: 2

H. L. Mencken

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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. Votes: 2

Alfred Hitchcock

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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. Votes: 2

Ingrid Bergman

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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. Votes: 2

William James

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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings. Votes: 2

Adam Levine

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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 blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Votes: 2

Robert Hass

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In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats. Votes: 2

Joyce Carol Oates

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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Votes: 2

Henny Youngman

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. Votes: 2

Edward Gibbon

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Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they? Votes: 2

Chrissie Hynde

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Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded to a commonplace level with men, this fine essential quality will be impaired, and their weakness will have to beg and follow where now it guides and controls. Votes: 2

John Boyle O'Reilly

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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. Votes: 2

Mary Schmich

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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent. Votes: 2

C. K. Williams

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It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try. Votes: 2

Alice Walker

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My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. Votes: 2

Carlos Santana

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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children. Votes: 2

Saint Teresa of Avila

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There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny. Votes: 1

Jean Genet

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Beauty comes from tenderness. Votes: 0

Katherine Center

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Be missionaries of God's tenderness! Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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We are hungry for tenderness, Votes: 0

Alda Merini

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There is no tenderness without bravery. Votes: 0

Katherine Center

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We bear the sole, relentless tenderness. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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One must endure without losing tenderness. Votes: 0

Che Guevara

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He views life with tenderness and determination. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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To know the pain of too much tenderness Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. Votes: 0

Pamela Frankau

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Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. Votes: 0

Robert Hass

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One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. Votes: 0

Che Guevara

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Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness. Votes: 0

Alan Jay Lerner

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And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness. Votes: 0

Han Suyin

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Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard. Votes: 0

Anna Akhmatova

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You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know. Votes: 0

Allan Gurganus

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Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje

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Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande Votes: 0

Nathaniel Dorsky

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It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness Votes: 0

Marlena De Blasi

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I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. Votes: 0

Robert Bly

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Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. Votes: 0

Robert Gottlieb

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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. Votes: 0

Aaron Eckhart

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Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Brennan Manning

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It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. Votes: 0

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth. Votes: 0

Hafez

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We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness. Votes: 0

Catherine Ingram

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When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. Votes: 0

David Jeremiah

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Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. Votes: 0

Saint Francis de Sales

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Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. Votes: 0

Rainer Maria Rilke

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We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. Votes: 0

Cornel West

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There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. Votes: 0

Eugene Sue

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The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. Votes: 0

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. Votes: 0

Jaggi Vasudev

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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. Votes: 0

Anna Seward

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There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness. Votes: 0

Tina Howe

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We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. Votes: 0

Chris Fabry

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All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. Votes: 0

Jane Hirshfield

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He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Votes: 0

Marlene Dietrich

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Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others. Votes: 0

Angelica Hopes

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How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy. Votes: 0

Amy Adams

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Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching. Votes: 0

Phillips Brooks

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Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. Votes: 0

Denis Diderot

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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. Votes: 0

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance. Votes: 0

Wilferd Peterson

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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. Votes: 0

Jean Vanier

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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge... Votes: 0

Rumi

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Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,Food to feed the universe. Votes: 0

Roman Payne

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Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion. Votes: 0

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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Baikida Carroll, whose balance of bravada and tenderness, facility and understatement mark him as a player to be reckoned with. Votes: 0

Jon Pareles

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Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! Votes: 0

Moliere

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The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love. Votes: 0

Shae-Lynn Bourne

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However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. Votes: 0

Pearl S. Buck

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Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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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 Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich

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Neverland is the way I would like real life to be ... timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic. Votes: 0

Mary Martin

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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. Votes: 0

Gustave Flaubert

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Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] Votes: 0

Ernesto Che Guevara

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The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe Votes: 0

Tony Hoagland

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There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different. Votes: 0

Etel Adnan

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Itâs only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. Votes: 0

Lawrence Durrell

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night! Votes: 0

Wilkie Collins

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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.... Votes: 0

Teresa of Ávila

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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.... Votes: 0

Teresa of Avila

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Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. Votes: 0

Therese of Lisieux

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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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. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God's love. Be missionaries of God's tenderness! Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Votes: 0

Marjorie Holmes

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The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. Votes: 0

Michel Foucault

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For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure. Votes: 0

Francoise Sagan

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SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.--Ameila Peabody Votes: 0

Barbara Mertz

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We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness. Votes: 0

Maurice Bejart

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The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. Votes: 0

Eudora Welty

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When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. Votes: 0

Hosea Ballou

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The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Votes: 0

Wilfred Owen

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The future of the world depends on the full restoration of the Sacred Feminine in all its tenderness, passion, divine ferocity, and surrendered persistence. Votes: 0

Andrew Harvey

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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them. Votes: 0

Friedrich Ruckert

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His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours! Votes: 0

Samuel Gilman

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What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions. Votes: 0

Brennan Manning

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The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us. Votes: 0

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. Votes: 0

Georges Bernanos

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To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy. Votes: 0

Hector Berlioz

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As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Lang

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While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person. Votes: 0

Michael Sims

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To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood. Votes: 0

William Alexander Percy

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I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness. Votes: 0

Steve Almond

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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 tenderness. Votes: 0

Nelly Mazloum

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To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. Votes: 0

Chogyam Trungpa

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To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Allow the hammer of pain to split open the stone armor of your hardness; exposing the tenderness and beauty of your sweet spirit and sacred heart. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands." Votes: 0

Laura Kreitzer

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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 touch. Votes: 0

Anne Enright

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When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take off your clothes and all is wiped away revealing life's tenderness. Votes: 0

Frank O'Hara

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The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases. Votes: 0

Therese of Lisieux

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In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity. Votes: 0

Barbara Degenevieve

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The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am. Votes: 0

Rachel McAdams

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Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother. Votes: 0

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

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I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room. Votes: 0

David Levithan

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After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. Votes: 0

Arthur C. Clarke

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God is ever before my eyes. I realize his omnipotence and I fear His anger; but I also recognize his compassion, and His tenderness towards His creatures. Votes: 0

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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...I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss... Votes: 0

Edward Hirsch

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Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness. Votes: 0

John Piper

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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 us for eternity. Votes: 0

David A. Bednar

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I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters. Votes: 0

Dan Chaon

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Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and hardness accompany death. Votes: 0

Laozi

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There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. Votes: 0

Norah Vincent

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Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope. Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart. Votes: 0

Richard Alleine

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" she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless. Votes: 0

Steve Toltz

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There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her. Votes: 0

Jason Evert

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Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. Votes: 0

Daphne du Maurier

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I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night. Votes: 0

Hedi Slimane

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Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness. Votes: 0

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory. Votes: 0

Arthur Rimbaud

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...with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched... Votes: 0

Katherine Anne Porter

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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 with him one hour. Votes: 0

John Owen

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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a modest way, and with a disposition of indescribable tenderness. Votes: 0

Charles Seymour Robinson

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We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. Votes: 0

Dennis Potter

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I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence. Votes: 0

Nhat Hanh

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I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body. Votes: 0

Andrea Bocelli

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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know? Votes: 0

George Eliot

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You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times. Votes: 0

Angelica Hopes

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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 any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist. Votes: 0

Mother Teresa

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In the end, we get older, we kill everyone who loves us through the worries we give them, through the troubled tenderness we inspire in them, and the fears we ceaselessly cause. Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin

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There is only one word of tenderness we could say, which we have not said oftentimes before ; and there is no consolation in it. The happy never say, and never hear said, farewell. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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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 long ago, which you remember with great tenderness. Votes: 0

Meg Wolitzer

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The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic. Votes: 0

Jean Paul

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Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion. Votes: 0

Bryce Courtenay

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When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face Votes: 0

Thomas Southerne

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The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld. Votes: 0

Jane Porter

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I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heartâone-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing. Votes: 0

Antonio Lobo Antunes

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Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest. Votes: 0

Emily Carr

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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 only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive. Votes: 0

Akkineni Nagarjuna

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It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. Votes: 0

Hannah Harrington

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The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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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 use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness. Votes: 0

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal. Votes: 0

Akhil Sharma

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The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. Votes: 0

Germaine Greer

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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 moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer. Votes: 0

Robin Becker

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And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Jodi Picoult

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And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

Annette Messager

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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

Dean Koontz

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The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?

Sue Monk Kidd

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All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift â the most rewarding experience in my life.

Kristin Chenoweth

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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

Agnes Smedley

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When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

Georges Bernanos

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Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

Waverley Root

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Jesus has no tenderness toward anything that is ultimately going to ruin a man in service to Him. If God brings to your mind a vese which hurts you, you may be sure that there is something He wants to hurt.

Andy Murray

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i expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

Ellen Hopkins

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[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

Eugene O'Neill

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I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.

Max Lucado

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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

Tennessee Williams

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Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Heimat. The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One's Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one's heart lies.

Jenna Blum

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The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

David Levithan

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When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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True friends donât spend time gazing into each otherâs eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

C. S. Lewis

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There is a mighty gulf between those who love and those who do not love God To the one class we owe civility, courtesy, kindness, even tenderness. It is only those who love the Lord who should find in our hearts a home.

Frederick William Robertson

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Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

Tara Brach

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Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .

Vladimir Nabokov

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How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

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It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.

Teresa of Avila

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Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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 to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.

Geneen Roth

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Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let us hasten along the road, The road of human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.

Emily Greene Balch

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He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind.

Daphne du Maurier

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Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half"well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month." "Such tenderness for your youngest child," Hyacinth muttered. "It quite undoes me.

Julia Quinn

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When Christians forget about hope and tenderness they become a cold Church, that loses its sense of direction and is held back by ideologies and worldly attitudes, whereas God's simplicity tells you: go forward, I am a Father who caresses you.

Pope Francis

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Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

Jane Hirshfield

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Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

Frank Herbert

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I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

Anna Brownell Jameson

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Do not oppose because in opposing the tenderness of the feeling level is crushed. That is why we say Speak the Truth but see that you are speaking delicately. Do not speak non-truth and do not speak in a non sweet way, so that the feeling is nourished.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.

Anne Roiphe

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Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

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We are not given any promises that, because of our noble intentions, everything will be okay. We learn that what truly heals is gratitude and tenderness. We [need] to transform our minds and actions for the sake of other people and for the future of the world.

Pema Chodron

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There is no difference between the pain of humans and the pain of other living beings, since the love and tenderness of the mother for the young are not produced by reasoning, but by feeling, and this faculty exists not only in humans but in most living beings.

Maimonides

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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you, as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."

Mitch Albom

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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 are high and you are continuing to push your own boundaries and learn new things. It keeps you flexible and young.

Jaime Murray

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You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness: because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics, galloping water, incessant sand, we make the only permanent tenderness.

Pablo Neruda

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Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents.

Louise J. Kaplan

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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 middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.

Pema Chodron

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Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.

Sophie Blackall

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