Tenderness Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Akhil Sharma

  Emotional, Way, Assuming

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Moving, Butterfly

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

  Gary Zukav

  Courage, Lying, Moving

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Son, Two

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Beauty, Please

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• So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Mother, Son

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• Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.

  Vinoba Bhave

  God, Simple, Skills

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Night, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.81, A&C Black

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

  Amy Adams

  Sexy, Strong, Powerful

  "Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, David O. Russell, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale Interview THE FIGHTER; Read or Listen to a Great Press Conference". Press Conference, collider.com. December 5, 2010.

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• We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Giving, Praying

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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.

  Pope Francis

  Love Is, Men, And Love

  "Pope: Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry". www.news.va. March 19, 2013.

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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

  Christian, Attitude, Father

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• I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Crazy, Flower

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sympathy, Courage, Men

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

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Women, Possession, Manhood

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• When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Octopus, Lobster, West Coast

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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

  Jesus, Hurt, Men

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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.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Prayer, Islamic, Heart

  Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”

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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.

  Albert Camus

  People, Happiness And Love, Century

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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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

  Sex, Love Is, Temptation

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.52

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• There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

  Washington Irving

  Sorrow, Affection, Moments

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.295, e-artnow

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• To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Distance, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1238, Macmillan

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• I stop writing the poem to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Mother, Writing

  Tess Gallagher (1992). “Moon crossing bridge: poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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