#tenderness

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. ↗

— James Gavin

#atheist #christ #christian #fair #gavin

Tenderness is a virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#virtue

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

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

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

— Rollo May

#does #human #matter #something #source

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#forgiveness #tenderness #win

A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#manhood #relationships #tenderness #love

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

He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila's awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist clung in tiny diamond drops. She could not take her eyes from him. ↗

— Ruth Wind

#dancing #lovemaking #tenderness #communication

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness. ↗

— Robert Bly

#tenderness #humans

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