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• It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

  Pema Chodron

  Butterfly, Knowing, Laughing

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, Pain, True Friend

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the women, who have done the most courageous deeds.

  Samuel Smiles

  Mean, Men, Done

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Men, Thinking, Vices

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• In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Reality, Literature

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• When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Desire, Virtue

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• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

  Robert Southey

  Spiritual, Judging, Over You

  Robert Southey (1858). “The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism”, p.21

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• The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Inspirational, Faith, Women

  "The Joy of Womanhood" by Margaret D. Nadauld, www.lds.org. November 2000.

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• 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

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupidity, Want, Proof

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• There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

  William James

  Religious, Attitude, Snickers

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.42, Booklassic

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

  William James

  Needs, Way, Companionship

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.269, Booklassic

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• A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and though it seldom receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Honor, Mind

  Henry Fielding (1903). “The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Simple, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

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• Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Simple, Kitchen, Tables

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• Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

  Frederick Tennyson

  Wind, Perfect, Joy

  Frederick Tennyson (1854). “Days and hours [poems].”, p.62

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• The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Silent Films, Firsts

  Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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• [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Writing, Play

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• Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

  Anna Seward

  Records, Failing

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• We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

  Dennis Potter

  Past, Long, Looks

  Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”

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• I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.

  David Attenborough

  Running, Hate, Car

  "Five reasons Kiwis love David Attenborough so much". www.thehits.co.nz. November 18, 2016.

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• If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Talking, Looks, Clinton

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• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  Sally Struthers

  Kissing, Men, Violence

  "The Book of Positive Quotations". Book by John Cook, Leslie Ann Gibson, p. 103, 2007.

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• Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

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• Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Reputation, Quiet, Virtue

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