#tender

My father couldn't warm my frozen hands. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#hurt #love #shatter-me #tenderness #love

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#full #joys #often #only #our

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#her #i #me #psychiatrist #seeing

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

— Aaron Eckhart

#i #i think #men #tender #think

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ↗

— George Eliot

#ease #ill #indifference #love #return

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings. ↗

— Adam Levine

#every #feelings #love #okay #physical

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

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

#becomes #been #black #consciously #each