“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.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
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Crawford Greenewalt (1902–1993) American chemical engineer
In Chemical and Engineering News, November 10, 1952, as quoted by Alan Tower Waterman in Research for National Defense, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1953), Vol. 9, No. 2,ISSN 0096-3402, published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc., p. 39.
“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
Barbara Kingsolver book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) United States poet, novelist and travel writer
“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 331)
