--- title: "12 Tender feelings Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 12 Tender feelings quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Tender feelings sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/gloria-steinem-277_ashamed_men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intima_2999971.jpg" --- > [Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intimacy-by-being-close-to-a-woman/) [Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/gloria-steinem-277_ashamed_men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intima_2999971.jpg) > [Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaudah-equiano/is-it-not-enough-that-we-are-torn-from-our-country-and-friends-to/) [Olaudah Equiano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaudah-equiano/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15d/olaudah-equiano-72712_avarice_is-it-not-enough-that-we-are-torn-from-o_3082201.jpg) > [We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/we-love-music-for-the-buried-hopes-the-garnered-memories-the-tender/) [Letitia Elizabeth Landon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letitia-elizabeth-landon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a11/letitia-elizabeth-landon-2397_buried_we-love-music-for-the-buried-hopes-the-g_2193204.jpg) > [“Varina was breathing hard through her nose, her face pinched, not unlike a child’s. “You don’t know how mad you can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lee-burke/varina-was-breathing-hard-through-her-nose-her-face-pinched-not/) [James Lee Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lee-burke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/james-lee-burke-2289_children_varina-was-breathing-hard-through-her-no_1745034.jpg) > [We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brit-hume/we-have-a-society-in-which-one-of-the-greatest-things-you-can-do-is-a/) [Brit Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brit-hume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fc/brit-hume-13174_easily-offended_we-have-a-society-in-which-one-of-the-gr_61946.jpg) > [Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/art-is-the-best-possible-introduction-to-the-culture-of-the-world-i/) [Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ab/pablo-picasso-552_art_art-is-the-best-possible-introduction-to_1757058.jpg) > [Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? Through mere words, wars have started and ended. Tender feelings have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randall-wright/have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-power-of-words-through-mere/) [Randall Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/randall-wright/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/randall-wright-34925_been-hurt_have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-po_2563925.jpg) > [“Stories begin when the last chapter says goodbye, when the last of tender feelings have seen their end, when two people release…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jayita-bhattacharjee/stories-begin-when-the-last-chapter-says-goodbye-when-the-last-of/) [Jayita Bhattacharjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jayita-bhattacharjee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/790/jayita-bhattacharjee-15109_book_stories-begin-when-the-last-chapter-says_659799.jpg) > [We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-worthless-in-itself-not-so-for/) [Letitia Elizabeth Landon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/letitia-elizabeth-landon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/letitia-elizabeth-landon-2397_aladdin_we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-w_378547.jpg) > [I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galen-beckett/i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-occupied-itself-with-the-most/) [Galen Beckett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galen-beckett/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/galen-beckett-21676_attachment_i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-o_669086.jpg) > [The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-muller/the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing-is-not-the-pain-sorrow-or/) [Wayne Muller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wayne-muller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/wayne-muller-12725_armor_the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing_2111041.png) > [If youre ever going to love me, love me now while I can know. All the sweet and tender feelings which from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-youre-ever-going-to-love-me-love-me-now-while-i-can-know-all-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d4/anonymous-1_love_if-youre-ever-going-to-love-me-love-me-n_913043.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tender-feelings/#itemlist", "name": "Tender feelings Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gloria Steinem" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intimacy-by-being-close-to-a-woman/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/gloria-steinem-277_ashamed_men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intima_2999971.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/gloria-steinem-277_ashamed_men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intima_2999971.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/888/gloria-steinem-277_ashamed_men-may-feel-just-disempowered-by-intima_2999971.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender…” — Gloria Steinem", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? 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Think back on your own life when words have hurt you deeply or have comforted and given you strength and hope to do better.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Randall Wright" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/randall-wright/have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-power-of-words-through-mere/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/randall-wright-34925_been-hurt_have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-po_2563925.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/randall-wright-34925_been-hurt_have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-po_2563925.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f78/randall-wright-34925_been-hurt_have-you-ever-stopped-to-consider-the-po_2563925.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Have you ever stopped to consider the power of words? 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We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Letitia Elizabeth Landon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/letitia-elizabeth-landon/we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-worthless-in-itself-not-so-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/letitia-elizabeth-landon-2397_aladdin_we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-w_378547.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/letitia-elizabeth-landon-2397_aladdin_we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-w_378547.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3c/letitia-elizabeth-landon-2397_aladdin_we-would-liken-music-to-aladdin-s-lamp-w_378547.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We…” — Letitia Elizabeth Landon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong were these impulses that I indulged myself by thinking that if I could not have him whom I admired whom I will admit it now when I would not before I loved then I would never want another. However those are sentiments best saved for one of Lily's romances. The heart is a far more practical thing and in its life is happily capable of more than a single attachment.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Galen Beckett" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galen-beckett/i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-occupied-itself-with-the-most/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/galen-beckett-21676_attachment_i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-o_669086.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/galen-beckett-21676_attachment_i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-o_669086.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6b/galen-beckett-21676_attachment_i-will-not-deny-that-my-heart-has-long-o_669086.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I will not deny that my heart has long occupied itself with the most tender feelings for another. So strong…” — Galen Beckett", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Wayne Muller" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wayne-muller/the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing-is-not-the-pain-sorrow-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/wayne-muller-12725_armor_the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing_2111041.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/wayne-muller-12725_armor_the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing_2111041.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/wayne-muller-12725_armor_the-greatest-barrier-to-own-own-healing_2111041.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children…” — Wayne Muller", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If youre ever going to love me, love me now while I can know. All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow. Love me now, while Im living; do not wait til I am gone. And then chisel it on marble words on ice, cold stone. If you have dear sweet thoughts about me. Why not whisper them to me? Dont you know it would make me happy and as glad as glad could be? If you wait until Im sleeping, never to awaken here again, there will be walls of earth between us and couldnt hear you then. I wont need your kind caresses when the grass grows over my face. I wont crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place. So then, if you love me any, if its but a little bit. 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