Quotes About Affection

Love is the highest form of courage.

Ones need for control is directly proportional for ones need for love.

To Parlin's mind, nothing showed affection like a hunk of something dead and bleeding on the table.

Finally he spoke. "You love them that much, 'Ene?" "They have become my people, Father." "It has been less than two months." "Love is independent of time, Father.(...)

You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him—no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you.

Love must be allowed to flow both ways—if it is not, then it is not truly love, I think.

He liked her. And he brought her food.

You actually love him, don't you?" Marasi asked. "Well, love is a strong emotion, one that requires careful deliberation to—" "Steris." "Yes." She looked down at her notebook. "It's foolish, isn't it?" "Of course it is," Marasi said. "Love is always a foolish emotion. That's what makes it work.

I wasn't sure what Sun Tzu or Beowulf would say about flirting with cute guys. Maybe share the skulls of your enemies with them, as a gesture of affection?

Vin looked down at the handkerchief. Whena nobleman wants to court a lady seriously, he gives her a handkerchief.

Is that a proposal?" "… Yes?" "Dalinar Kholin," she said. "Surely you can do better." He rested his hand on the back of her head, touching her black hair, which she had left loose. "Better than you, Navani? No, I don't think that I could. I don't think that any man has ever had a chance better than this.

She looked up at me, and though there were tears in the corners of her eyes, she wasn't weeping. She was laughing. "You," she said, "are an utter fool, David Charleston. I wish you weren't also so adorable.

It means you're weird," M-Bot added. "Uh…," I said. "Don't worry. I like you anyway.

She's right. What do I owe him? The answer came immediately. I love him.

This time, when she'd pointed it at me, she'd flicked the safety on. If that wasn't true love, I don't know what was.

Practicing self-love means learning how to trust ourselves, to treat ourselves with respect, and to be kind and affectionate toward ourselves.

Love: We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness, and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

kindness, and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed, and rare.

Love is not something we give and get. It is something we nurture and grow.

And I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love. — DOLLY PARTON, "I Will Always Love You

As we think about shame and love, the most pressing question is this: Are we practicing love? Yes, most of us are really good at professing it--sometimes ten times a day. But are we walking the talk? Are we being our most vulnerable selves? Are we showing trust, kindness, affection, and respect to our partners? It's not the lack of professing that gets us in trouble in our relationships; it's the failing to practice love that leads to hurt.

The greatest need that any child has is the need for unconditional love.' (Boyd 2003)

I was in love.

The love of a woman, a good woman, is the greatest gift a man could ever receive.