Top 1200 Tender Feelings Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Feelings follow actions. If I'm feeling low, I deliberately act cheery, and I find myself actually feeling happier. If I'm feeling angry at someone, I do something thoughtful for her and my feelings toward her soften. This strategy is uncannily effective.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests spontaneously through intuition. Intuition gives expression to the feelings; that expression is unique and perfectly fitted to the needs of the moment.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

With the tough mind, there must also be a tender heart.

Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.

It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.

I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.

People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out "inner feelings" beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. By nature, we are emotional creatures. Often we live and react based on feelings, not logic. Feelings are wonderful, but when we become tied to a particular thought or belief we tend to ignore the fact that change might be necessary.

He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

For someone to have faith in you at the tender age of 16 is massive.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

Tender as a mothers love... And with my mother, that was certainly true.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

I'm very sensitive - I'll cry during every movie or commercial - but when it comes to my own feelings, I don't really think about them that much unless I'm making music. Otherwise, I'm either checked out or laughing because that's how I do regular stuff. I have a hard time talking about my feelings.

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings, and it seemed like every two weeks one of my friend just coming to me and, like, you hurt my feelings the other day, dude.

It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy sex with him.

Soft moonlight and tender love harmonize together wonderfully.

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

I’m going to be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

A movie can evoke feelings, thoughts, it is all there and happening, there is no control over the images when you are watching a movie. You are transported for three hours to a world where you see real people. In a novel it is private - there's only you, and words on pages. The landscape is in your mind and in your feelings.

I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.