Quotes About Affection

I hold the memories of you in my heart.

When a hug is this big, you feel it for days.

At the end few things matter more than how well you loved those who love you. Love and honor your family.

It is better to hug than wave hands.

There is no limit to the power of loving.

Courtship is indeed a pleasing part of life when there is mutual affection, the consent of friends, the reasonable prospect of an eventual fulfillment, and when it is conducted in obedience to the will and worship of God. But when these concomitants are absent, what we call love becomes the most tormenting and destructive passion that can be named.

I love you? Yes, I love you. Like saying I have cancer.

Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic. Your sense of each other darkens and your presence is sore. If you can come through this time, it can purify with your love, and falsity and need will fall away. It will bring you onto new ground where affection can grow again.

People say I love you all the time - when they say, 'take an umbrella, it's raining,' or 'hurry back,' or even 'watch out, you'll break your neck.' There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructive to be bitter.

Mind and Love. These two words correspond to one of the deepest lessons Edwards ever taught. Mind (or understanding) and love (or affection) correspond to two great acts of the Godhead, and two ways that humans in his image reflect back to God his own glory. Here's

Just the absence of loneliness. Thats love enough.

Isnt it possible that wanting to be wanted Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or 'loved' Ã¢â'¬Â¦ could be as much an aspect of what you call 'love' as actually loving back?" I said. "I mean, in choosing someone to 'love' you—to be loved by—while that other person chooses you to 'love'—doesnt one complete the need of the other?

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

You love her, even if you don't believe you do. You're used to her, and a lot of love is nothing more than habit.

If you love language, it will love you back.

To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as the time approaches when all selfish interests must be terminated by death: while those who leave after them objects of personal affection, and especially those who have also cultivated a fellow-feeling with the collective interests of mankind, retain as lively an interest in life on the eve of death as in the vigour of youth and health.

Who doubts that there may be great goodness, and great happiness, and great affection under the absolute government of a good man? Meanwhile, laws and institutions require to be adapted, not to good men, but to bad.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover?Prithee, why so pale?Will, when looking well can't move her,Looking ill prevail?

Out upon it, I have lovedThree whole days together;And am like to love three more,If it prove fair weather.

Out upon it, I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?