Tenderness Quotes - Page 2

• Only the gentle are ever really strong.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Heart, Compassion

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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.

  Mo Udall

  Wisdom, Giving, May

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• She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. She had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. She thought the tenderness it left in her heart was like a bruise that would never go away, but she would cherish it forever.

  Philip Pullman

  Heart, Adventure, Thinking

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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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Education

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

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• Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Purpose, Awareness

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.41, Verso

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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.

  Tara Brach

  Mom, Mother, Suffering

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.216, Random House

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• Tenderness is a virtue.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Virtue

  "The Good-Natur'd Man". Play by Oliver Goldsmith, 1768.

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• Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Angel, Men, Compassion

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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.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Sacrifice, Soul

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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.

  Andrew Harvey

  Passion, Persistence, Sacred Feminine

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• Try a little tenderness.

  Sara Zarr

  Trying, Littles

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.24, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Faces, Glances

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Moving, Soul

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  William James

  Companionship, Affinity

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  Louis Pasteur

  Respect, Teacher, Children

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• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  Audre Lorde

  Black, Literature, Study

  "Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde, ("Eye to Eye"), 1984.

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• Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Men

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• Tenderness is the rest of passion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Passion

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• Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Loyalty, Kindness, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 11, 2014

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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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Good Life, Father, Thinking

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Michel Houellebecq

  Giving Up, Seduction, Instinct

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Deep Love, Animal, Breathing

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.168, Delphi Classics

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