Tenderness Quotes - Page 20

• I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Believe, Passion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.46, Routledge

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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.

  Jason Evert

  Men, Class, Gentleman

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.132, Totus Tuus Press

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

  Eugene Sue

  Weakness, Degrees, Dependence

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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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Healing, Loss, Brotherhood

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.78, Knopf

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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

  Mother, Sibling, Grief

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.28, Agate Digital

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• The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

  Adam Gopnik

  Loyalty, Past, Desire

  "Blows Against the Empire" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2007.

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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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Imperfection, Enemy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.197, 谷月社

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• Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future.

  Janusz Korczak

  Children, Taken, People

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

  Shae-Lynn Bourne

  Valentine, Heart, Forever

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• In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hope, Children, Writing

  Edward Gibbon (1827). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, 1”, p.258

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• When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen
  all you have to do is take your clothes off
  and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness
  that we are flesh and breathe and are near us
  as you are really as you are I become as I
  really am alive and knowing vaguely what is
  and what is important to me above the intrusions
  of incident and accidental relationships
  which have nothing to do with my life

  Frank O'Hara

  I Love You, Clothes, Feelings

  "Love Poems".

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Flower, Heart

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 11

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• I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

  Rick Warren

  Kindness, Firsts, Brotherly

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!

  Donald Evans

  Beauty, Moving, Heart

  Donald Evans (1919). “Ironica”

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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.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Political, Soul

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Eye, Compassion, Omnipotence

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.341, Springer

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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

  Kindness, Reading, Generosity

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Margaret Deland

  Years, Humanity, Age

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• Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Essence, Suffering

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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• Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

  Germaine Greer

  Passion, Love Life, People

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• There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Focus, Sensual, Paper

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.84, Vintage

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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.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Women, Shade, Woods

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.54

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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

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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

  Money, Pain, Believe

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• I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.

  Roger Housden

  Morning, Couple, Book

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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