“A great deal of tenderness, but it was the tenderness of a hospice nurse - of one committed to caring but too familiar with pain and parting to every truly or fully invest.”
“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
“Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.”
“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”
“When circumstances overwhelmAnd seem too much to bear,Depend unpon the Lord for strengthAnd trust His tender care.”
“I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge' because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.”