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Quotes About Affection

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.
~ C. S. Lewis
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
~ George Santayana
A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.
~ Charles Nodier
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
~ Scott Westerfeld
It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all.
~ Stevie Smith
Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
~ Sunday Adelaja
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.
~ Kamand Kojouri
One of the best things about humans is their ability to love.
~ Auliq Ice
There's no substitute for a mother's warmth on a wintry night!!!
~ Mukesh Kwatra
And there were carved hearts in the trunks of trees with the initials of couples who felt there was no more romantic thing they could do to celebrate their love than scar the local plant life
~ Kevin Hearne, Hunted
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow
~ Thomas Bray
What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this
~ Kevin Heath
The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~
~ Liv Tyler
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
~ Julia Quinn, The Duke and I
A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.
~ Garry Chapman