Connection Quote by Greg Boyle

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

— Theodor Adorno

Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are…

— Rollo May

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

— Jeff Bridges

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most generous and heart-thrilling impulse.

— William Godwin

Tenderness is the infancy of love.

— Antoine Rivarol

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and…

— Roberto Bolano

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape…

— Rachel McAdams

“Tenderness can be born only of respect for individualities. Tenderness builds its nest in little things, in the absurdities of a face, in personal…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Intimacy requires a slow, cumulative build of safety between people who agree to a relationship, an ongoing connection of care and concern. The performance…

— Lierre Keith

It's easy to have a relationship and show each other only the beautiful shiny things. Sharing good parts about you is elementary, so finding…

— Claudio Sanchez

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

— Therese of Lisieux

Tenderness is a virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith