Quotes about Tenderness

You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Kindness affects more than severity.

I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender.

One choice changes the construction of a life. You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.

For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world was his face, the flower of his face, the pale stooped disposition, the heartbreakingness and the holiness and his teachings of tenderness to me, and my mother constantly reminding me tonpay attention to his goodness and advice.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within him with delight, at all these sparks of a tenderness so exclusive, so wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated with angelic joy; he declared to himself ecstatically that this would last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a wretch, by that innocent being.

The best position for practicing this is lying down. You focus your attention on a part of your body, such as your heart. As you breathe in, you become aware of your heart, and as you breathe out, you smile towards it. You send it your love, your tenderness.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.