Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. ~Williams Childs
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness. ~ Rollo May
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy. ~Randolph Ray
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows. ~ Marlene Dietrich
Tenderness is the rest of passion. ~ Joseph Joubert
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. ~ Samuel Johnson
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. ~ Henry Fielding
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education - Maya Angelou.
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~ Jane Austen
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. - St. Theresa of Lisieux
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. ~ Frederick William Robertson
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. - John Ruskin
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. ~ George Eliot
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. ~ Louis Pasteur
When we exaggerate our friends’ tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. ~ Marlene Dietrich
Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self. - Michael Ondaatje, (The English Patient)
