“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”
Maya Angelou
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
“A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.”
Marjorie Holmes
“O Yahya! take hold of the Book with strength, and We granted him wisdom while yet a child / And tenderness from Us and purity, and he was one who guarded (against evil), / And dutiful to his parents, and he was not insolent, disobedient.”
quran
“Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
T.S. Eliot
“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.”
Orson Scott Card
