Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all…

Rollo May
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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union ✨ Love and Will. Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.
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