Quotes About Affection

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

Reason must be deployed not to reduce compassion and affection, but to direct them effectively, and to avoid throwing oneself away on unworthy objects of love.

To them, happiness was not, as it often is in present-day discussions, simply a subjective state, such as might be induced by chemicals; it meant attaining the preconditions for personal happiness, including domestic affection, material sufficiency and a suitable degree of freedom.

Love is friendship set in a blaze of fire.

I don't know what your type is. I don't know what your deal is. I don't even know if you have a boyfriend. I know I like you and I want to be in your life, that's it, and if you have any room for a boyfriend, I would like to be your boyfriend, and if you don't have any room, I would like to be your friend. Any room you have for me in your life is great. If you would like me to start out in one room and move to another, I could do that.

Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.

At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks, so I wasn't, like, shocked or anything. But still, it's never not nice to to keep realizing.

It you're feeling happy vibes, they're from me, " Stephanie told me after she mailed the tape. "I'm vibin' you real hard. I'm building a wall of love around you, three inches all around.

You're the little spoon, aren't you?

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Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual's life have emanated from the family and local community and the church. Within such groups have been engendered the primary types of identification: affection, friendship, prestige, recognition. And within them also have been engendered or intensified the principal incentives of work, love, prayer, and devotion to freedom and order.

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

Ursula excelled me without difficulty in swimming, sailing, and fell-walking alike. Marriage had sheered off the first edge of romance from our actual caresses, but there was a sweet affection between us, as between a devoted brother and a devoted sister, though I suppose that is not an approved way of putting it. I always wanted a sister, and never more than at this present moment.

subjects became fonder of the people and things they experienced while they were eating.

I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.

It seems to me now that true love is the only theme for either song or story.

The irresistible attraction of pets is that their love can be earned

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.