Quotes About Tenderness

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.

Avec un naturel éprouvé, elle passa en quelques instants de l'émotion à la reconnaissance, de la reconnaissance à la tendresse, de la tendresse au désir.

C'était une longue étreinte, déchirante de tendresse et de douleur, le symbole, pour tous ceux qui en étaient les témoins, de ce que la condition humaine recèle de plus tragique: l'amour à l'épreuve de l'ultime séparation. L'éternité du sentiment et la finitude des corps.

Everything about him changed when he talked about her—his voice, his face, his manner. His love for her was so earnest that he handled even the subject of her with tremendous care. Her name was like a fine glass bauble he was afraid of dropping.

Listen to me, normal one! We see a truth that you no longer see. A truth that says the essence of man is love and faith, courage and tenderness, generosity and sacrifice.

Stowne leaned in to kiss her, their mouth warm, soft as fine sand and still smiling.

Pay heed: the artichoke is a shy vegetable. She covers herself in spine-tipped leaves that must be carefully peeled away, and underneath shields her treasure with a barricade o' soft needles. They must be tenderly, but firmly, scraped aside. Ye must be bold, for if yer not, she'll never reveal her soft heart.

there is no such thing as holding a baby too often, cuddling a baby too much, kissing a baby too many times, singing too many lullabies, or breastfeeding a baby too often. When it comes to babies, there is definitely no such thing as too much love, and babies define love in very physical ways. I

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, I love you, Mother. He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

And Mr. Wilkins, much pleased with her, though it was still quite early in the day, a time when caresses are sluggish, pinched her ear.

Last night," he said, reminiscently, "you bound my arm—the merest scratch! with all the tenderness of which a woman is capable when her compassion is aroused. Today, you propose to shoot me in cold blood for no better reason than that I will not gratify your curiosity! It has been truly said that females are strange creatures!

In language I combine my flesh with yours, and you with mine; my flesh is tender, my skin aches from knowing you

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Slowly he turned into the curve of her palm, cut lip pressed against her skin. She heard two whispered words, felt them kissed into her flesh: amore mio. My love. Two words: the shock of them held her still.

She didn't protest as Hale slid his arm around her and pulled her to rest against his chest. It was somehow softer there than she remembered.

Su sonrisa era una cuerda de oro alrededor de mi corazón. Donde fuera que me jalara, yo la seguía.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick" (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).

My ass and back ache like someone gave me a baseball-bat massage.

There is a wholeness about a woman, of shape, and sound, and colour, and taste, and smell, a quietness that is her, that you will want to hold tightly to you, all, every little bit, without words, in peace, for jealousy for the things that escape the clumsiness of your arms. So you feel when you love. ...For her womaness is a blessing about her, and you are tender to put your hands upon her and kiss, not with lust, but with the joy of one returning to a lost one.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts