Affection Quotes
Charlotte Brontë
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.
1146Jane Austen
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
1001 Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
2958 John Joseph Powell
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
2393 David Sedaris
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.
2244 Anthony Liccione
She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress.
3258 Michael Bassey Johnson
True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.
1435 Ellen J. Barrier
Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.
1386 B.F. Skinner
In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
3165 Veronica Roth
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
2916 Mike Gayle
I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.
4332 Vera Nazarian
Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.
2450 Walt Whitman
I like the scientific spirit - the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine - it always keeps the way beyond open - always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake - after a wrong guess.
1590 C. JoyBell C.
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.
1326 Michael Bassey Johnson
A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.
4834 Michael Bassey Johnson
The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.
3361 Suzanne Young
Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection.
2669 Gretchen Rubin
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
2853 Auliq Ice
Love requires trust, and trust requires honesty that is only got through love.
3038 Jane Austen
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
1488 Thomm Quackenbush
Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms.
4083 Christopher Hitchens
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
3320 Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they've lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.
3253 Jane Austen
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is
strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I
am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
4875 Daniel Keyes
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
1077 Thiruvalluvar
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
4491 Jonathan Edwards
But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.
1662 Jagan Kumar
Humanism is my Religion, Good is my adoption , Bad is my Elimination, Acceptance is my Decision, Love is My Gift , Relation is my Affection ,Truth is My Strength, Help Is My Credit , Knowledge is My Treasure
3929 LeAnne Mechelle
I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch.
2760 W.H. Auden
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
3947 Kemi Sogunle
Love never dies but the affection/passion you have for each other may fade over time when you don't personally connect with each other.
3673 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.
2158 Drew Barrymore
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!
4082 Michael Bassey Johnson
Women are gifts, open them with care, judge them with leniecy, test and weigh their depths, then accept those with true worth and value.
2173 Orhan Pamuk
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
2048 John Valentine
Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.
2876 Alamvusha
The thing is that when you find true love.... it lives on.
No matter if you two seperate but the love stays alive; broken, gasping for breath, love and affection, but in agony, waiting for everything to end. But Sadly, It lives on... in memories and thought's.
1129 Honoré De Balzac
Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
3465 Praveen KC
I have never been sad because my losses are my profits
3828 Sonya Hartnett
I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.
1326 Peter Ustinov
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
1893 Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
3487 Enock Maregesi
Maumivu ya matatizo ya yule aliyekukosea hayana tofauti na maumivu ya matatizo ya wewe uliyekosewa. Adui yako (kwa mfano) akifiwa na mke aliyempenda sana, atajisikia vibaya kama utakavyojisikia vibaya kufiwa na mke uliyempenda sana. Kuwa na huruma kwa waliokukosea, wakati wa shida.
2341 Daniel Friday Danzor
Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.
3536 Pradeepa Pandiyan
No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.
2917 Otsuichi
My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.
4382 M.H. Rakib
....because people die but their memories not.
4302 Lorii Myers
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.
3316 Jennifer Haigh
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog.
3558 Michael Bassey Johnson
The heart becomes warmer when the mild heat of love is coming from two persons. one is in eternal cold and desolation without feeling the friction of love.
4182 Kabir
Do not keep the slanderer away,
treat him with affection and honor:
Body and soul, he scours all clean,
babbling about this and that.
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