Quotes on Affection

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty of individuals. Water will seek its level; nature will have free course; and heart will answer to heart.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Do not keep the slanderer away,_x000D_ treat him with affection and honor:_x000D_ Body and soul, he scours all clean,_x000D_ babbling about this and that.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.

A Warrior of Light needs love._x000D_ _x000D_ Love and affection are part of his nature._x000D_ _x000D_ He makes use of solitude, _x000D_ _x000D_ but is not used by it.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.