Tender Hearts Quotes

• We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Mind, Tough

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.

  Mary C. Ames

  Heart, Men, Soul

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

  Robert Frost

  Kindness, Heart, Compassion

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 578, 1895.

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• Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

  Ruth Graham

  Inspirational, Prayer, Heart

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• The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Happiness, Heart, Wretchedness

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• To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “An Old-Fashioned Girl: Top Novelist Focus”, p.119, 谷月社

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• At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Heart, Tissues

  "How to Get Through What You’re Going Through: Who’s Your Daddy?" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Mind, Tough

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• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Heart, Mean

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• A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Heart, Clouds

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.151, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

  Voltaire

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.

  Juvenal

  Kindness, Heart, Men

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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.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• Purge me from every sinful blot;
  My idols all be cast aside:
  Cleanse me from every evil thought,
  From all the filth of self and pride.
  
  The hatred of the carnal mind
  Out of my flesh at once remove:
  Give me a tender heart, resigned,
  And pure, and full of faith and love.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21

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• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

  Voltaire

  Heart, Paradise, Hell

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

  Lee Roberson

  Heart, Giving, Tears

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• A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

  John Bunyan

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

  John Bunyan (2015). “The Acceptable Sacrifice”, p.60, Gideon House Books

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• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

  Mary Howitt

  Children, Father, Heart

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• Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
  A tender heart, a loyal mind,
  Which with temptation I could trust,
  Yet never linked with error find.

  George Darley

  Heart, Errors, Giving

  George Darley (1908). “The complete poetical works of George Darley now first collected, reprinted from the rare original editions in the possession of the Darley family”

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• I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.

  Lora Leigh

  Heart, Promise, Way

  Lora Leigh (2011). “Navarro's Promise”, p.59, Penguin

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• Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Song, Heart

  George Herbert, Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1855). “The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott”, p.65

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• If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Two

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.133

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• ...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Sound, Essentials

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.60, Anchor

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