Tenderness Quotes - Page 16

• Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Love Is, Bears

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• We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

  Cornel West

  Kindness, Radical, Sweetness

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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Erotic, Style, Identity

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• Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Children, Pain

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

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• With lines that show an unyielding dedication to craft, these poems are not afraid of meaning or the meaningful. More and more every day, the thinking American asks how she is to believe in love when there is war all about her, and in each of her deeply felt lyrics, Elyse Fenton confronts this question with the kind of tenderness one lover reserves for another. If every poem is indeed a love poem,Clamor is indeed a debut worth reading and about which we must make noise.

  Jericho Brown

  Meaningful, War, Reading

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• There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.

  Richard Alleine

  Heart, Long, Broken

  Richard Alleine, Joseph Alleine (2000). “Heaven Opened: The Riches of God's Covenant Grace”, p.55, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Sleep, Eye, Vastness

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.55, Knopf

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• I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Self, Miracle, Grace

  "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

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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 desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pain, Eye, Fearless

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• Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like a predatory beast which seeks to be satiated by devouring them, for the people fall into two categories: they are either your brethren in faith or your kindred in creation.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Kindness, Fall, Heart

  "Nahj al-Balagha". "Nahj al-Balagha" by Ali ibn Abi Talib. Letter 53: An order to Malik Al-Ashtar,

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• Some women feel power is important, some women feel that looks are important, tenderness, intelligence...but sense of humor seems to permeate all of them.

  Woody Allen

  Important, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

  Leontyne Price

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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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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• One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside the constraints of "normal" society still have romantic impulses and are capable of love and tenderness. Sometimes people cannot or don't want to acknowledge that pornographers are people too!

  Bruce LaBruce

  People, Trying, Want

  Interview with Jane Harris, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Dark, Compassion

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• The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

  Jane Porter

  Anxiety, Doubt, Overcoming

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• To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

  Hector Berlioz

  Vehemence, Melancholy, Morbid

  Hector Berlioz (1935). “Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865: comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England”

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• It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

  Adrienne Rich

  Suffering, Nerves, Resentment

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• You who have received so much love, share it with others. Love others the way that God has loved you, with tenderness.

  Mother Teresa

  Way, Share, Much Love

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• Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in the way two people negotiate their own personal amalgam of companionship and sex, compromise and disappointment, lust and tenderness, trust and lies. The challenge for the rest of us is to do the same.

  Suzanne Braun Levine

  Sex, Disappointment, Lying

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