Quotes About Tenderness

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, the same Fond spirit that blindly works in the blood of all— 145 Than that a child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts, And stirrings of inquietude, when they By tendency of nature needs must fail.

As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl

La ternura es, en estos tiempos, una manera como otra de llenar el bocadillo con humo de barbacoa; no se alimenta uno mejor pero tampoco se pierde la ilusión.

It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, Even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, Even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, Even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.

We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.

He cupped the back of her head with one large hand and kissed her, slowly, sweetly, as if he were courting her again. When he pulled away, he wasn't surprised to find the tears that had stood unshed in her eyes were gone. He had always said Delilah Drummond was a force of nature. She had swept into his life with all the impact of a hurricane, and he had never entirely recovered from the first time she had looked up into his eyes and given him her slow, inviting smile.

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness]

Kind heart, kind soul.

Don't let a cruel word escape your mouth. There's no greater sin than breaking a heart.

A baby is a smiling, dancing moon in our hands just waiting to touch our hearts.

Tenderness of heart and kindness of the soul are not signs of weakness, but they are signs of inner strength.

Even a flower can feel the touch of kindness.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

Be loving and kind all the time.

I love you because you're tender and sweet, you the hardest and sternest of men. And your sweetness and tenderness are such that they make you as light as a shred of tulle, subtle as a flake of mist, airy as a caprice. Your thick muscles, your arms, your thighs, your hands, are more unreal than the melting of day into night. You envelop me and I contain you.

He was experiencing minutes as light as minuets, minutes composed of anxiety and tenderness.

Divine s'offrait à la nuit afin d'être dévorée de tendresse par elle et jamais plus vomie