Affection Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Affection
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~ Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. ~

Jules Michelet

~ No affections and a great brain,--these are the men to command the world. ~

~ The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~

Buddha

~ Jealousy is the grave of affection ~

Mary Baker Eddy

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

Kahlil Gibran

~ Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. ~

Sir John Lubbock

~ The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ~

John Sterling

~ Affection endeavors to correct natural defects, and has always the laudable aim of pleasing, though it always misses it. ~

John Locke

~ He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection. ~

Terence

~ A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. ~

Charles Darwin

~ Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained ~

C.S. Lewis

~ The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. ~

Abraham Maslow

~ Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ~

Joseph Butler

~ Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. ~

Saskya Pandita

~ 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. ~

Nathaniel Hawthorne

~ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ~

Abraham Joshua Heschel

~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~

Bill McKibben

~ It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. ~

Christian Nestell Bovee

~ The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection. ~

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

~ Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. ~

George Crabbe

~ Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ~

Victor Hugo

~ God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. ~

Mary Howitt

~ Affection without sentiment, authority without cruelty, discipline without aggression, humor without ridicule, sacrifice without obligation, companionship without possessiveness. ~

William E. Blatz

~ Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers. ~

Charles Eastman

~ More affectionate than a kiss is a well done hug in someone that you love. Have you ever notice how I can give delicious hugs? ~

Carmen Miranda

~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it. ~

Simone Weil

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