Tender Feelings Quotes

• He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

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  Margaret Atwood

  Children   Feelings   Woods  

  2026

• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

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  Melissa Marr

  Crush   Feelings   Shells  

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• The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.

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  Wayne Muller

  Children   Pain   Healing  

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

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  Gloria Steinem

  Men   Feels Just   Feelings  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.

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  Galen Beckett

  Strong   Heart   Thinking  

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.310, Bantam

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• We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

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  Brit Hume

  Feelings   Literature   Victim  

  1838

• Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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  Pablo Picasso

  Art   Memories   Dust  

  349

• The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.

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  Chris Van Allsburg

  Thinking   Sky   Feelings  

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• Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

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  Olaudah Equiano

  Country   Luxury   Feelings  

  Olaudah Equiano (1967). “Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.34, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been hurt and soothed. Courage has been instilled and fear has been implanted. Lives have been destroyed and others changed for the better. Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better.

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  Randall Wright

  Hurt   War   Communication  

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• We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

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  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Love   Hope   Memories  

  "Romance and Reality".

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