Quotes on Affection

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

I never change, except in my affections.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We all need basic human values rooted in trust and affection.

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.

Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

There is no power greater than true affection.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,_x000D_ _x000D_ And young affection gapes to be his heir;_x000D_ _x000D_ That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,_x000D_ _x000D_ With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.