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Quotes About Tenderness

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
~ William Shakespeare
One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.
~ Mona Van Duyn
The most important medicine is tender love and care.
~ Mother Teresa
The Sacraments are the manifestation of the Father's tenderness and love towards each of us.
~ Pope Francis
Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~ Hannah More
When I see you, I smile. When I touch you, I feel you. When I kiss you, I love you!
~ Kathy Griffin
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Pity melts the mind to love.
~ John Dryden
Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.
~ Gisele Bundchen
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.
~ Jane Porter
That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
~ June Jordan
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!
~ Samuel Gilman
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.
~ Samuel Johnson
A love song is just a caress set to music.
~ Sigmund Romberg
You dont need a love scene to show love.
~ Lee Grant
Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.
~ Marianne Williamson
There is something softer than the water: The touch of the love!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
~ Pema Chodron
Show love! Love feels good!
~ Gia Allemand
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
~ Dean Koontz
[Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.
~ Annette Messager
Everyone loves to be loved.
~ Mark Spitz
It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.
~ Merle Shain