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Quotes About Affection

The best people to love are the ones that you don't have to try to love.
~ Carlos Salinas
I loved her as the sun loves the flower: ever-present, nourishingly, and gently.
~ Carlos Salinas
I don't love her because she's beautiful; I love her and she's beautiful.
~ Carlos Salinas
They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.
~ Carlos Salinas
When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
~ Carol Ann Susi
That's when Steve bent down and kissed her.
~ Maureen Johnson
They leave me and I love them more.
~ Maurice Sendak
Oh, please don't go — I'll eat you up — I love you so!
~ Maurice Sendak
Oh please don't go- we'll eat you up- we love you so!
~ Maurice Sendak
Is there, he asked with a bitter smile, any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?" Nobody held up a hand. As I feared, said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when she is not preferred to all other women.
~ Max Beerbohm
Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry. We resented each other. She envied me my beauty, my dress. I envied the little fool her privilege of being always near to you.
~ Max Beerbohm
I left off loving you when I found that you loved me. There is the premiss. Very well! Is it likely that I shall begin to love you again because you can't leave off loving me?
~ Max Beerbohm
She may not have had that conscious, separate, and quite explicit desire to be a mother with which modern playwrights credit every unmated member of her sex. But she did know that she could love. And
~ Max Beerbohm
Caresses in the evening, yes, but I can't stand caresses in the morning, and frankly more than three or four days with one woman has always been for me the beginning of dissimulation, no man can stand feelings in the morning. I'd rather wash dishes! Sabeth laughed.
~ Max Frisch
To live as God's child is to know, at this very instant, that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more. All your efforts to win his affection are unnecessary. All your fears of losing his affection are needless. You can no more make him want you than you can convince him to abandon you. The adoption is irreversible. You have a place at his table.
~ Max Lucado
God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.
~ Max Lucado
Hours before his own death, Jesus' concern is singular. He wants his disciples to know how much he loves them. More than removing dirt, Jesus is removing doubt.
~ Max Lucado
Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it. Stretch yourself out in the hammock of grace.
~ Max Lucado
I am starved for tenderness and that is what is the matter with me and has been the matter with me for months
~ May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
~ May Sarton
The roots of love need watering or it dies.
~ May Sarton
First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
~ Maya Angelou
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
~ Maya Angelou
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
~ Maya Angelou