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Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Tenderness is the repose of passion.
– Joseph Joubert

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  2. It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness. – Joubert
  3. The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. – Joseph Joubert
  4. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. – Joseph Joubert
  5. Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course. – Joseph Joubert
  6. Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety. – Joseph Joubert
  7. There are those to whom one must advise madness. – Joseph Joubert
  8. There are those to whom one must advise madness. – Joseph Joubert
  9. Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good? – Augustine of Hippo
  10. Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. – John Muir
  11. You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can’t cope. – Jalaluddin Rumi
  12. Repose not trust in testing another’s degree of honesty at the risk of one’s loss in matters big, unless collateralized. – Firoozeh Dumas
  13. Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. – Susan Abulhawa
  14. Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain! – William Hazlitt
  15. With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage. – Joseph Campbell
  16. life is like a silver coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can spend it once. – Irma Joubert
  17. Fear feeds the imagination. – Joubert
  18. War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks. – Irma Joubert
  19. Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion. – Joubert
  20. Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with. – Irma Joubert
  21. Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts! – Joubert
  22. Are you listening to the ones who keep quiet? – Joubert
  23. Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them. – Joubert Botha
  24. Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] – Ernesto Che Guevara
  25. It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected. – Cassandra Clare
  26. Mother’s arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within. – Victor Hugo
  27. 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
  28. Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal. – Laura Anderson Kurk
  29. I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart. – Sarah Noffke
  30. But the lost one is with you.Her tenderness strengthens you,Her gaiety uplifts you,Her honor purifies you.More than memory,The lost one is found. – Gail Carson Levine
  31. Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world’s hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman’s tenderness. – Willa Cather
  32. Our tenderness, compassion and kindness go with sensitive generous heart that should not be abused by others. – Angelica Hopes
  33. Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. – Kahlil Gibran
  34. Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. – Dean Koontz
  35. As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness. – Jeffrey Lang
  36. The birthing wolf,Her heart fed with tenderness,Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,Food to feed the universe. – Roman Payne
  37. Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe – Tony Hoagland
  38. The sky mingled with the Earth infinitely in the tenderness of rain drops. – Meeta Ahluwalia
  39. Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so. – Arturo PrezReverte
  40. There was a moment of tenderness between them, and for a moment he experienced the most rare, ridiculous emotion- hope. – Tessa Dare

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