#tender

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. ↗

— George Santayana

#bid #divine #faith #heart #led

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#been #cheers #dew #doth #gone

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ↗

— Ruth Graham

#hide #just #pray #pray for #tender

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. ↗

— Huston Smith

#christian #compassion #death #discipline #earth

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry. ↗

— Robert Hass

#body #continuing #days #evenings #flesh

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

#coast #drink #feel #fountain #get

I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. ↗

— David O. Russell

#because #class #day #figure #films

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.' ↗

— James Wolcott

#author #autumn #brought #contender #dan

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone. ↗

— Norah Vincent

#gender-stereotypes #loss #maleness #masculinity #tenderness