Quotes About Tenderness

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Sometimes, in the midst of a tragedy like the Newton massacre, we witness incredible acts of valor, tenderness, grace, and decency. We saw it from Sandy Hook Elementary School's teachers, students, and parents, as well as from their community and country. The outpouring of sympathy and help has been touching and, at times, inspiring.

They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.

London has always moved and surprised me, reinventing itself in ways both fresh and familiar. It's a contrary, complex and creative city, an anarchist of a thousand faces - fickle and unfailing, tender and bleak, ambitious and callous.

Sus labios balbucieron una palabra cariñosa: —Cutushito… —mientras estrechaba entre sus brazos, con el abandono que sólo da la costumbre, su propia almohada.

Lutam melhor os que têm sonhos belos. Somente aqueles que contemplam a beleza são capazes de endurecer "sem nunca perder a ternura".

When you know my love, my love will warm you.

...my heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair.

She squeezed the left side of his face.

El aprender a descansar en Dios en los tiempos de soledad comienza con el cuerpo, como la imagen del niño amamantado lo sugiere. Esta imagen me lleva a los momentos llenos de suavidad y ternura de mis primeros tiempos como madre.

I hugged him. He wrapped his arms around me as I rested my head to his chiseled chest.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.

Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted.

Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little true tenderness had been mixed into her love. Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms. Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.

Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart.

had awakened no idea of what passion might be or tenderness or true intimacy of body or spirit.

Somehow she found that she was sitting on the low velvet chair and Ashley, on the hassock at her feet, was holding both her hands in his, in a hard grip. He was saying things—things that made no sense. Her mind was quite blank, quite empty of all the thoughts that had surged through it only a moment before, and his words made no more impression than rain on glass. They fell on unhearing ears, words that were swift and tender and full of pity, like a father speaking to a hurt child.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.

He still blushes every evening when he gets his good-night kiss, and then begs for another one. Am I merely a better substitute

Ik voel als ik eraan denk, vandaag nog zijn wang tegen de mijne met dat heerlijke gevoel dat alles goed maakt

He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European.