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Tenderness is a virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. -- Marlene Dietrich
Tenderness is the rest of passion. -- Joseph Joubert
Tenderness is the infancy of love. -- Antoine Rivarol
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. -- Jane Austen
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. -- Marlene Dietrich
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -- Victor Hugo
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. -- Victor Hugo
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. -- Khalil Gibran
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Thomas de Quincey
Try a little tenderness ... -- Sara Zarr
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. -- Frederick William Robertson
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness. -- William James
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. -- Rumi
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. -- Henry Fielding
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. -- Robert Frost
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. -- Aaron Eckhart
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. -- George Eliot
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. -- Mo Udall
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. -- Maya Angelou
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. -- Salman Rushdie
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. -- Chogyam Trungpa
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. -- Henri Nouwen
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity. -- David
Tenderness, mercy and love, we all need more of. -- Heather Wolf
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. -- William Faulkner
The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands. -- Carolyn Forche
Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose. -- Theodor Adorno
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. -- Khalil Gibran
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife -- Howard W. Hunter
Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. -- Michel Houellebecq
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. -- John Ruskin
Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. -- Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. -- Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization. -- Ellen Key
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. -- Laurel Nakadate
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.... -- Muhammad Imran Hasan
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. -- Kay Ryan
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. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- Sylvia Plath
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. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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. -- Brennan Manning
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. -- John Adams
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 Â?tis Injustice to infringe her Laws. -- Michel de Montaigne
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 ... -- Katherine Philips
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. -- Jack Kornfield
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 -- Rollo May
Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. -- Robert Gottlieb
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. -- Rollo May
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them. -- Brigitte Bardot
I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. -- Ethel Waters
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. -- H. L. Mencken
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table. -- Alfred Hitchcock
A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness. -- Ingrid Bergman
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. -- William James
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. -- Adam Levine
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. -- Robert Hass
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. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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. -- Henny Youngman
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. -- Edward Gibbon
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? -- Chrissie Hynde
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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. -- Mary Schmich
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. -- C. K. Williams
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. -- Alice Walker
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. -- Carlos Santana
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. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Beauty comes from tenderness. -- Katherine Center
We are hungry for tenderness, -- Alda Merini
Be missionaries of God's tenderness! -- Pope Francis
We bear the sole, relentless tenderness. -- Pablo Neruda
One must endure without losing tenderness. -- Che Guevara
There is no tenderness without bravery. -- Katherine Center
He views life with tenderness and determination. -- Paulo Coelho
To know the pain of too much tenderness -- Khalil Gibran
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness. -- Mason Cooley
One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness. -- Che Guevara
Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. -- Robert Hass
Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness. -- Alan Jay Lerner
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders. -- Pamela Frankau
Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande -- Nathaniel Dorsky
Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness. -- Michael Ondaatje
It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people. -- Cassandra Clare
You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know. -- Allan Gurganus
There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness -- Marlena De Blasi
Real tenderness can't be confused, It's quiet and can't be heard. -- Anna Akhmatova
And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness. -- Han Suyin
I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. -- Robert Bly
Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. -- Robert Gottlieb
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton. -- Aaron Eckhart
Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ. -- Brennan Manning
In the face of anger, the best response is a burst of tenderness. -- Catherine Ingram
We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist. -- Mother Teresa
Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth. -- Hafez
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. -- Cornel West
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone. -- Bob Dylan
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. -- Pope Francis
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. -- Washington Irving
When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness. -- David Jeremiah
There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength. -- Saint Francis de Sales
No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. -- John Ruskin
The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us. -- Pope Francis
Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. -- Mitch Albom
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein. -- Victor Hugo
Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it. -- Eugene Sue
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. -- George Eliot
The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us. -- Jane Hirshfield
There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness. -- Tina Howe
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love. -- Jaggi Vasudev
You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. -- Chris Fabry
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. -- Anna Seward
Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. -- Mother Teresa
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman. -- Khaled Hosseini
We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness -- Pope Francis
One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us -- Dean Koontz
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. -- Samuel Johnson

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