Quotes About Tenderness

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

Love is effortless attention

Without compassion there's no Love

Despite all the loving and caring relationships in the world, there is nothing more loving than the feel of my mother's hand on my forehead when I am sick.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Let all that you do, be done in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:14

I just want to lay on your chest and listen to your heartbeat.

The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.

Love is kind, beautiful, and gives you the warmest feeling inside.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

The Church must run the risk of dilution rather than leave the state to the cold light of reason, unwarmed by tenderness.

His inmost feelings remained a mystery still. Perhaps to himself, she thought, as much as to her. For could even he explain how it was that while he had terrified her at first with his arrogant anger, yet in the end it was his tenderness and gentleness which had soothed her? And she had lain quiet in his arms, tranquil and glad to be there, even though the after-sobs of the storm that had passed still shook her.

Even now she could scarcely bear to remember the aching tenderness of those moments when she had realised that if she was afraid of Christopher—she also loved him; that if he came with something of the terror of an avenger, he came with the glory of a lover too.

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Love is stronger than violence.