Quotes About Tenderness

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.

I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.

Obscurely awaited, immanent and concealed, it rouses to such a paroxysm, at the moment when at last it makes itself felt, those other pleasures which we find in the tender glance, in the kiss of her who is by our side, that it seems to us, more than anything else, a sort of transport of gratitude for the kindness of heart of our companion and for her touching predilection of ourselves, which we measure by the benefits, by the happiness that she showers upon us.

Quand on aime, l'amour est trop grand pour pouvoir être contenu tout entier en nous; il irradie vers la personne aimée, rencontre en elle une surface qui l'arrête, le force à revenir vers son point de départ et c'est ce choc en retour de notre propre tendresse que nous appelons les sentiments de l'autre et qui nous charme plus qu'à l'aller, parce que nous ne reconnaissons pas qu'elle vient de nous.

Custom came to take me in her arms, carried me all the way up to my bed, and laid me down there like a little child.

he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind with such a monster.

Lei ansima, il collo torto verso il soffitto rotto, e lui la guarda. E forse la guardava così, con la stessa tenerezza, la stessa nostalgia, mentre facevano l'amore.

but when she looked into his eyes, those dark velvet brown eyes, Arabella saw something of tenderness. And for all that she should have known better, for all of her common sense, she felt the stirrings of old feelings that she had thought never to feel again.

Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Bunny to be comfortable.

It's not emotion that makes him gentle; it's instinct. He can be gentle even when he feels no emotion; he can be gentle when touching something soft. The way you're careful when you touch a peach.

I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]].

You keep your love wrapped in bird's nerves...

But the love of man for man is a far more tender thing, and so simple that it is universal. To love in this way is not the privilege of any especially prepared intellectual class, but lies within the reach of all men.

Tener un corazón capaz de amar, un corazón que puede conocer la ansiedad y el sufrimiento, que puede afligirse y conmoverse, es la característica más específica de la naturaleza humana. El corazón es la esfera más tierna, más interior, más secreta de la persona, y es precisamente en el corazón de Jesús donde habita la plenitud de la divinidad»

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love

At some level of consciousness, all lovers know this. If you cease to care for the person you love, you will give up a vital piece of your identity. You will become someone else. You will look back on your past love with tenderness or anger or some other combination of feelings, but you will not be able to recapture the same emotions you once felt.

Algunas noches vos me haces una caricia nueva, una caricia inédita, y fíjate que curioso, esa caricia nueva también sirve para revitalizar las viejas caricias, como si las contagiara de su novedad

La atención es la caricia más hermosa.

Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions and profanities of a Court, the scandal of her position and the enervation of luxury and pleasure — and this lustre she added to her generosity, her kindness and her womanly tenderness.

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn't.