90 Phrases of Tenderness to Understand This Feeling

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Tenderness and affection.

Perhaps there is no feeling more recognized as a source of inspiration and exaltation of the most sublime that human beings can contribute. And it is that In the different phrases of tenderness that we find, we can recognize that ease in connecting with others in an empathetic way.

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    1 The most honest phrases of tenderness

    The most honest phrases of tenderness

    Next a review of the phrases of tenderness that have been created with great sensitivity

    1. That the other person considers you theirs is not tenderness, that is possession. Tenderness is when a person takes care of you so well that it seems like he is caressing you and then, you feel like you are protected by a stone castle (William Srekit)

    Tenderness will always make you feel safe and calm; if the opposite is true, we must review our concept of tenderness.

    2. When you feel tenderness towards another person, you could spend the rest of your life with them doing absolutely nothing and still feel like you were in heaven (Sara Halles)

    This phrase of tenderness shows us how this feeling influences relationships

    3. Imagine that everyone was a little more tender, a little kinder, a little more affectionate. With that small effort we would change the world overnight (John Kazebic)

    Tenderness as a source of harmony among others.

    4. Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look that becomes a habit (Peter Ustinov)

    Tenderness as a way or channel that accompanies an action.

    5. The most powerful symptom of love is an almost insurmountable tenderness (Victor Hugo)

    When tenderness is a powerful expression of love

      6. I will never hurt you, I will always help you. If you are hungry, I will give you my food. If you are afraid, I will be your friend. I love you now and love never ends (Orson Scott Card)

      This phrase expresses care and attention.

      7. The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard; They must be felt with the heart (Helen Keller)

      That is why tenderness is experienced independently in each person.

      8. The bravest are the most tender; those who love most are those who dare most (Bayard Joseph Taylor)

      There is a power that hides within tenderness.

      9. There was never a truly great and generous heart that was not also tender and compassionate (Robert Frost)

      The power of tenderness has existed in great men.

      10. We must combine the hardness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a hard mind with a tender heart (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

      Tenderness as part of a diverse range of what the human essence is.

      11. Beauty is not how you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you give to other struggling souls, like you (Shannon L. Alder)

      Tenderness also means patience and teaching.

      12. There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kindness, compassion, tenderness (Heather Wolf)

      Tenderness appears again as a trait of love

      13. Be tender with the mistakes of others, be strict towards your own (HH Swami Tejomayananda)

      Tenderness as part of the learning process.

      14. Make a point to be tender with the young, compassionate with the older, understanding with those who struggle, and tolerant with the weak. Sometime in your life you will be one of them (Dr. Robert H. Goddard)

      Everything you give to others comes back in some form.

      15. Friendship is a perfect agreement of the feelings of human and divine things, united with goodness and mutual tenderness (Cicero)

      The tenderness as an expression of friendship

      16. Pray for a tough skin and a strong heart (Ruth Graham)

      Tenderness is usually the strength of any heart.

      17. The most precious possession that ever comes into the world is a woman’s heart (Josiah G. Holland)

      This phrase of tenderness is dedicated to women.

      18. One day you will ask me what is more important, my life or yours. I will say mine and you will leave without knowing that you are my life (Khalil Gibran)

      This phrase manages to express tenderness in a very simple way.

        19. At this time somewhere in the world there is someone who would be happy to have you (Walter Riso)

        The tenderness expressed in this phrase by Riso manages to cheer up a lonely heart.

        20. Because you always exist wherever, but you exist better where I love you (Mario Benedetti)

        A person who is capable of inspiring tenderness can manage to elicit other expressions of affection from you.

        21.Love is not only phrases full of tenderness, it is the whole heart that is given without measure (Anonymous)

        Tenderness is not enough, we must knowing how to express it as a shared feeling

        22. Frida spread tenderness like flowers, yes, like flowers. A great tenderness, an infinite tenderness (Chavela Vargas)

        A peculiar way to describe the painter by one of her best friends.

        23. Harden without ever losing tenderness (Che Guevara)

        A phrase of tenderness to avoid losing it.

        24. Have you seen a gesture of tenderness on the face of a sleeping madman? (Jaime Sabines)

        Beautiful phrase of tenderness by Jaime Sabines.

        25. Tenderness is the central column that supports life José (Víctor Martínez Gil)

        Tenderness as an important basis for human beings.

        26. Tenderness is the repose of passion (Petrus Jacobus Joubert)

        In this phrase, tenderness is seen as a deeper and more serene feeling.

        27. Love without tenderness is pure desire for dominance and self-affirmation to the point of being destructive. Tenderness without love is soft sentimentality incapable of creating anything (Fernando Savater)

        About the honest expression of tenderness depending on which feeling is accompanied.

        28. My heart is white with tenderness (Jacobo Fijman)

        About a heart that is always approached by tenderness.

        29. In the mother’s breast we absorb tenderness for life (José Narosky)

        About maternal tenderness.

        30. Things I want, like a great wave of tenderness making me make a snail’s noise, a school of fish in my mouth, something fragile and naked, like a flower about to give itself to the first light of the morning, or simply a seed, a tree, a little grass. (Gioconda Belli)

        Beautiful expression of what this emotional state means.

        31. Let me express to you, like this, when words flee, oh, expression of touch, the only precise voice, let me, like this, express my tenderness to you (Vicente Gaos)

        One of the many ways that poets approach tenderness.

        32. I will ensure that tenderness reaches you among the waves and that the dew of dawn never finds you alone, that the foam lulls you asleep in my arms and that it be like the foam kissing your lips (Rosana)

        About the tenderness that comes as a song.

        33. It is difficult to maintain the necessary cruelty that allows us to be relentless in our judgments. The tenderness of memories spreads everywhere; If we dilute ourselves in it it will be impossible to look at someone with the hard eyes of reality (Elias Canetti)

        Tenderness as a desensitizer for hard hearts.

        34. It is necessary to unbutton your hand, undress it in the street, enter by knocking down the men’s door second floor left wing file number tenderness (Roberto Jorge Santoro)

        Great way to include tenderness in poetic expression.

          35. We think we can guess each other’s feelings, we can’t, of course, we never can. It’s not important. Actually it is the tenderness that interests me. That is the gift that moves me, that sustains me, this morning, just like every morning (Raymond Carver)

          Tenderness as a motor of life.

          36. Never in your life will you find tenderness better and more selfless than that of your mother (Honoré de Balzac)

          This phrase of tenderness honors the mother

          37. Candles of love in gulfs of tenderness my poor heart flies to the wind and finds, in what it reaches, its torment, and hopes, in what it does not find, its fortune (Ramón De Campoamor)

          Once again the lyric as a way of expressing tenderness.

          38. Only tender people are really strong (James Dean)

          About the power of tenderness.

          39. When death comes, the great reconciler, we never repent of our tenderness, but of our severity (Mary Anne Evans)

          Tenderness becomes the perfect companion of memorable moments thanks to its intensity and the sensation it produces in us.

          40. My beauty satisfies me so much that I will never think of or seek tenderness in another love (Giovanni Boccaccio)

          When, due to various situations, we come to refuse to share the experience of tenderness with the other.

          41. What is the reason why words like these seem so clumsy and so cold to me? Could it be that there is no word tender enough to describe you? (James Joyce quotes)

          When we have run out of resources to express tenderness.

          42. What music of touch the caresses with you! What deep chords! What scales of tenderness, hardness, and enjoyment! (Manuel Altolaguirre)

          About nuances of emotions.

          43. It is not necessary that there be love in a book for us to love it, but it is necessary that there be a lot of tenderness (Joseph Joubert)

          Tenderness over any type of expression.

          44. Life is tenderness. That is why we do not understand it nor will we ever understand it. The stone does not understand the breeze We measure the orbits of the stars, and we are astonished before a flower (Rafael Barrett)

          It is not easy to understand tenderness when we are not prepared to rock with it.

          45. But when he was about to scream, the fear disappeared. She was replaced by a wave of tenderness, sorrow and unexpected desire (Kate Morton)

          About sudden outbursts of anxiety and its solution.

          46. ​​Spasms of tenderness shake heaven and earth. (Manuel González Prada)

          A very intense way to explain the experience of emotional connection with someone.

          47. I don’t need the moon or even the foam, only two or three seconds of tenderness are enough (Luis Eduardo Aute)

          When tenderness becomes a prevailing need.

          48. Life has rewarded me with the most precious thing that exists. I have known tenderness (Miguel Mihura)

          In this phrase of tenderness, the author wanted to show this as the maximum expression of the divine.

          49. Now that I had discovered what tenderness was, I put it in everything I liked (José Mauro De Vasconcelos)

          When you have walked through its lands and it is difficult to leave them.

          50. Life without tenderness is not worth much (José Mauro De Vasconcelos)

          As an important part of existence.

          51. I didn’t understand anything then! I should have judged her by her actions and not by her words. The flower perfumed and illuminated my life and I should never have fled from there! I couldn’t guess the tenderness hidden in her poor cunning! The flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)

          This author has often managed to successfully convey the experience of tenderness in his works.

          52. The few images that a man can or has the right to remember were not enough: he demanded dates, precise places, exact tones of light and details of tenderness, enumerations of quotes, words, and from thinking so much about Mariana, he They wore out his memories (Antonio Muñoz Molina)

          When it accompanies discomfort, it is life.

          53. They were small discoveries full of tenderness (Takashi Hiraide)

          And probably their greatness lay in them.

          54. I felt the tenderness and respect of someone who kisses someone they love (Dolores Redondo)

          About the expression of affection.

          55. (…) When her gaze stopped again on Nicolás, she smiled at him again, with a smile that was not distracted, nor was it insistent, but it addressed him, personally, it completely enveloped him with that celestial tenderness that emanated from her (Emmanuel Carrere)

          A way to describe tenderness from the divine.

          56. My sad tenderness, what do you do to yourself suddenly? When I have reached the most daring and coldest vertex, my heart closes like a night flower (Pablo Neruda)

          Beautiful excerpt from a sincere and moving conversation.

          57. You looked at me with tenderness, that look when you detect that the other person is having a terrible time (Mónica Carrillo)

          As a sign of solidarity and empathy.

          58. Tenderness is, these days, just another way of filling the sandwich with barbecue smoke; You don’t eat better but you don’t lose your hope either (Yasmina Khadra)

          Tenderness is an experience from which we are going to nourish ourselves in any way.

          59. There is one thing that is always desired and sometimes obtained: human tenderness (Albert Camus)

          About how difficult it is sometimes to come across that feeling.

          60. And for the first time since I knew him, his face showed what he always hid: tenderness, love…And pain (Cornelia Funke)

          As a characteristic feature of sensitive people.

          61. Your caresses wrap me like vines wrap around dark walls. (Pablo Neruda)

          A way to give texture to tenderness.

          62. The weak and the tender defeat the hard and the strong. (Lao Tse)

          Tenderness over aggressiveness.

          63. Life is tenderness. That is why we do not understand it nor will we ever understand it. The stone does not understand the breeze, we measure the orbits of the stars, and we are astonished before a flower (Rafael Barrett)

          Emotions are uncharted territory.

          64. In art as in love, tenderness is what gives strength (Oscar Wilde)

          As a source of sublime expressions.

          65. May the vital breath make you tender and fresh as a newborn child is tender and fresh (Lao Tzu)

          Tenderness is like water, it molds and takes different forms in the face of different life experiences

          66. The condition of life is to devour what lives, and whoever escapes from this, due to that feeling they call tenderness, always succumbs (Wenceslao Fernández Florez)

          When this feeling is our weakness.

          67. Children are like God, full of tenderness, peace and with the universal language of love (Pedro Pantoja Santiago)

          The divine tenderness of children.

            68. When will you understand that sometimes being tough means being tender? (Sam Huntington)

            Interesting way to address strengths.

            69. (…) Because all her passion, all her tenderness were within herself (…) She thought she had a lover when she only had love (Jacinto Octavio Picón)

            When tenderness is in the deepest feelings but we don’t know it yet.

            70. It is more appropriate to restrain children out of honor and tenderness than out of fear and punishment (Terentius)

            It is the best way to educate a child.

            71. The man gives tenderness to receive sex, the woman gives sex to receive tenderness.

            A truly revealing summary of tenderness, which tells us about the differences between some men and women.

            72. In the night full of stars there is more infinite tenderness than in all human hearts (José Vasconcelos)

            The beauty of night landscapes can be truly tender and enchanting.

            73. The essence of humor is sensitivity, a warm and tender sympathy towards all forms of existence (Thomas Carlyle)

            People show tenderness when we treat the rest of the beings around us with respect.

            74. Caresses are as necessary for the life of feelings as leaves are for trees. Without them, love dies at the root (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

            A very accurate allegory about the need for tenderness that people have.

            75. You can caress people with words (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)

            Tenderness is something that can be practiced daily in the way we relate to others.

            76. The bed the size of desire to try all the caresses and confuse the skin in the long sweat that shines in the half light of the afternoon curtains (Hugo Gutiérrez Vega)

            A truly suggestive poem about the tenderness of couples in bed.

            77. Come and let us delight in love, with nectar of the palate, because your caresses are better than wine! (Yehuda Halevi)

            A truly romantic date that we can tenderly dedicate to someone special.

            78. The Christian knows how to be like Jesus, tough against evil, but tender towards those who are in need. (Father Gabriele Amorth)

            One of the essential bases of the Christian religion.

            79. Solidarity is the tenderness of people (Gioconda Belli)

            A very accurate allegory about brotherhood among the peoples of the world.

            80. It is true that love preserves beauty and that women’s faces are nourished by caresses, just as bees are nourished by honey. (Anatole France)

            People in love always appear younger than they are.

            81. Sweetness is not rented nor pain sold, love is not lent, tenderness is not stolen, and even if the priest gives you communion, only God gives you favors (José Larralde)

            A love poem about the tenderness of this great Argentine poet and singer-songwriter.

            82. Love is not measured by the number of caresses, but by the frequency with which one and the other understand each other (Herbert Spencer)

            Understanding is one of the fundamental pillars of any loving relationship.

            83. I loved Fernand for the tenderness of his ignorance (Léolo)

            Some people are really sweet about their ignorance.

            84. Manhood is more than bragging, cursing, or climbing mountains. Manhood is also tenderness, delicacy and consideration

            A perfect definition that encompasses the majority of men today.

            85. The sad secret of every human being: that they need a lot of tenderness, that they cannot live without love (Sándor Márai)

            A recipe that many of us undoubtedly need.

            86. I called every florist in five states, told them it was the only way for my wife to marry me (Big Fish)

            One of the most remembered phrases from this Tim Burton film released in 2003.

            87. Tenderness is that which vitalizes the old man, puts the child to sleep and disarms the man.

            An absolutely true phrase about the effects of tenderness on human beings.

            88. Tenderness is in danger of extinction (Albert Espinosa)

            This successful writer has based many of his stories on tenderness and love.

            89. The “I love you” is a piece of soul that we give to the other

            A phrase that perfectly sums up what love is.

            90. I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees (Pablo Neruda)

            One of the most tender and remembered verses of this great Chilean singer-songwriter

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