Tenderness - we can understand tenderness as :

1.a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.

2.  term most often expressing significantly positive form of interaction between lovers.

3.  warm compassionate feelings

Tenderness quotes

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as  tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the  tenderness of the best of hearts.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its  tenderness becomes.

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness  to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

An infinitude of  tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Tenderness is the rest of passion.