Quotes About Tenderness

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

Sometimes love isn't fireworks. Sometimes, love just comes softly.

You are my greatest gift and I seal it with a kiss.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Make me a fragrance that smells like love

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily.

I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.

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

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

I knew Elmo should represent love. Kissing and hugging.

Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.

It's always the kindnesses that finish you off.