#tender

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#beautiful #benign #beyond #brilliant #fame

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. ↗

— Rollo May

#does #human #matter #something #source

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. ↗

— Mo Udall

#gentle #give #lord #may #tender

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

— Frederick Tennyson

#dies #drowns #joys #like #loud

Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender. ↗

— Carre Otis

#anorexia #arena #bartender #because #before

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. ↗

— Ouida

#bid #could #friends #goodbye #meet

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#diner #first #good #good work #i

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

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#tender #love

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power