Ana

“There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.”
― Heather Wolf, Kipnuk the Talking Dog

“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Space Between

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson