Quotes About Affection

Affection is only one ingredient of love...

love is the only force that allows us to hold one another close beyond the grave. that is why knowing how to love each other is also a way of knowing how to die.

When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect with them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called cathexis. In his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us confuse cathecting with loving.

This book tells us how to return to love.

Discipline and devotion are necessary to the practice of love, all the more so when relationships are just beginning.

Because children can innately offer affection or respond to affectionate care by returning it, it is often assumed that they know how to love and therefore do not need to learn the art of loving. While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love. Grown-ups provide that guidance.

Pressed in therapy to describe my household of origin in terms of whether it was loving or not, I painfully admitted that I did not feel loved in our household but that I did feel cared for.

Para amar verdadeiramente devemos aprender a misturar vários ingredientes: carinho, afeição, reconhecimento, respeito, compromisso e confiança, assim como

Psychoanalyst Carl Jung insightfully emphasized the truism that "where the will to power is paramount love will be lacking.

Para amar verdadeiramente, devemos aprender a misturar vários ingredientes — carinho, afeição, reconhecimento, respeito, compromisso e confiança, assim como honestidade e comunicação aberta.

Leading her to the table, Rick poured a glass of champagne for her. As they touched glasses, he smiled and said, "Here's looking at you, kid." Yvonne positively glowed.

For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such, as what he loves may never like too much.

I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Amavo moltissimo la mia Ceinwyn. Anche ora, dopo anni, sorrido quando la penso; a volte, di notte, mi sveglio con le lacrime agli occhi e so di averle versate per lei. Il nostro amore era nato in una vampata di passione e i saggi dicono che simili passioni si spengono sempre, ma la nostra non se era spenta: si era mutata in un amore intenso e duraturo.

He loved you, I protested. She stared at me and I thought she was about to erupt into a blistering anger, but instead she smiled wanly. He worshipped me, Derfel, she said tiredly, and that is not the same thing as being loved.

Ti amava - protestai. Lei mi fissò. Pensavo che stesse per esplodere, ma si limitò a sorridere e a scuotere la testa. - Mi venerava, Derfel - disse in tono stanco - e non è la stessa cosa che essere amata. Si lasciò cadere su uno sgabello, accanto alla cassapanca di legno. - Essere venerata, Derfel, è una cosa che stanca, a lungo andare.

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam. (No amé, pero anhelaba amar)

Eu ama Ceinwyn demais. Mesmo agora, anos depois, sorria ao pensar nela, e algumas vezes acordo de noite com lágrimas no rosto e sei que se devem a ela.

Stiorra, Stiorra!" I would say as I tickled her, or let her play with my arm rings. Stiorra, so beautiful.

Ele a amava — protestei. Guinevere me encarou e achei que estava prestes a irromper numa fúria total, mas em vez disso deu um sorriso triste. — Ele me cultuava, Derfel — falou em voz cansada —, e isso não é o mesmo que ser amada. — Ela se sentou de repente, desmoronando num banco junto ao baú. — E ser cultuada, Derfel, é muito cansativo.

Eu realmente amo você — falei, tentando tocar sua alma com ternura. — Eu? Não Lunete? — disse Nimue, furiosa.

Odi at amo, excrucior

But when love already keeps you warm, then there's no need to look for pleasure anywhere else.