Quotes About Tenderness

As he watched her sleeping, under wretched and insufficient blankets, in the cold nights which swooped down after the panting sun-drenched days, his dry heart blossomed in tenderness. . . . To think that he had once esteemed people because they understood Goossens's music or James Joyce's fiction, because they wore sleek clothes and were clever at the use of forks, because they could set up wooden words as a barricade against roaring life!

His hand glides down my arm, folds over my hand. His fingers lace with mine, palms kissing. I can feel the fast thud of his heart through this single touch.

Ale ja som priÅ¡la na svet milovaÃ…Â¥, nie nenávidieÃ…Â¥!

It is better to have a tender than harden human heart.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

The 'wretch' who has been saved by grace] believes and feels his own weakness and unworthiness, and lives upon the grace and pardoning love of his Lord. This gives him an habitual tenderness and gentleness of spirit. Humble under a sense of much forgiveness to himself, he finds it easy to forgive others." 76

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

I laid my head upon her shoulder, and could hardly speak for the comfort that she gave me.

Jealousy is the most absurd pain of all. How one resents it! To be made to suffer in public–the public indignity, the private pain. The shock of it lays dreadful waste in one's soul; it discolors the whole world, cancels every remembrance of tenderness.

Followers of Christ will not exhibit characteristics that are cheap and selfish, but in word, spirit, and action they will reveal the tenderness of Christ.

He wept over Jerusalem, the city He loved, which refused to receive Him, the way, the truth, and the life. They had rejected Him, the Saviour, but He regarded them with pitying tenderness. His

My handsome Knight of Night came over to me and kissed me softly on the cheek.

A small red face ringed in soft black curls looked up at him for one moment, registered that he wasn't the milk-providing parent, and erupted back into a howl. There was no telling Lucia that she was a pebble on the shores of eternity. She was a living, breathing, adorable source of chaos, and he loved her so much that it felt as if his heart were beating outside his body.

Never ever fall short of true love i.e. never be deficient of true love. Rather, be saturated with true love and remain saturated with it. For, you ought to be loveful and never hateful.

The caresses over which love presides are always pure.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender...

This is what it means to be loved Ã¢â'¬Â¦ when someone wants to touch you, to be tender

En definitiva, ser querido es eso: que deseen tocarte, ser cariñosos contigo.

When I woke up, for a second, I could still vividly feel the sensation of my arms around my mother's neck, and my chest against hers. I was overcome by such a deep yearning that I cried as much as I'd ever cried in my life.

Pensai che la gentilezza disinteressata delle persone, le loro parole spassionate, fossero come un abito di piume.

From earth, and sky, and sea, Let cheer come unto me, And mirth, and tenderness, And all the things that bless, That I may pass them on to those Who suffer woes; Not keep them for mine own.

she felt incredibly fragile, which was not how she liked to feel.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.