Quotes about Tenderness

May you have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.

I have not bestowed my tenderness anywhere. I have never had any such thing.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

Do all things with love.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

All this talk of equality between the sexes is merely an expression of sex-hate. Men and women should learn tenderness to each other and to leave one another alone.

How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

There is an endearing tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart.

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude. I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts.

Love has two rules: the first one is love, and the second one is love some more.