Quotes About Affection

There has never been a single example of love without words in the history of the world. To stay silent because you really love someone is proof of a terribly stubborn complacency.

They feel confident that their love will be transmitted bit by bit to the person they love. The one who loves has the humble pride that the beloved will one day realize that they are loved, even if no words are uttered

If you're too timid to be able to say it, then it means that you are too concerned about yourself. You're afraid to leap into the waves. If you really love someone, then the words of devotion will unconsciously slip out.

Poverty is nothing. As long as you love me, all I want is to spend my whole life by your side. But you love Naoji more than you love me, don't you?

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

If we indulge in inordinate affection, anger, anxiety, God holds us responsible; but He also insists that we have to be passionately filled with the right emotions.

You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents--burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose--the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God. But you don't eliminate it, God does.

Don't say to yourself, "But God is not talking to me right now." He ought to be. Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold. Your mind will no longer be starved, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright.

Feb. 9…"Is your source based on your own understanding or is it grounded on the redemption of Jesus Christ? Continually look back to the foundation of your love and affection and remember where your Source of power lies. You have no right to complain, "O Lord, I am so exhausted." He saved and sanctified you to exhaust you. Be exhausted for God, but remember that He is your supply. "All my springs are in you" (Psalm 87:7).

God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so.

If my holiness is not drawing towards Him, it is not holiness of the right order, but an influence that will awaken inordinate affection and lead souls away into side-eddies.

Remember whose you are and whom you serve. Encourage yourself to remember, and your affection for God will increase tenfold.

Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar" (Psalm 118:27). You must be willing to be placed on the altar and go through the fire; willing to experience what the altar represents—burning, purification, and separation for only one purpose—the elimination of every desire and affection not grounded in or directed toward God.

Every lover is a soldier and has his camp in Cupid.

Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

To be loved, be lovable.

If you would be loved, be lovable

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.