Quotes About Affection

You must realize that the true desire to express affection can be motivated by things other than true love.... In short, one might simply say: save your kisses--you might need them someday. And when anyof you--men and women--are given entrance to the heart of a trusting young friend, you stand on holy ground. In such a place you must be honest with yourself--and with your friend--about love and the expression of it's symbols.

Gimme some sugar, baby.

Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

While this doesn't mean that smart children need less affection, it does suggest that if they are deprived, brighter kids may be better equipped to cope.

Yes, I believe every environment has a tone. If you were to walk into any home as a stranger, not speaking the language, you could absolutely feel whether this is a place where people are loved.

If you are loved, you learn to love.

las experiencias repetitivas y pautadas en un ambiente seguro pueden tener un impacto tremendo en el cerebro— comencé a integrar las lecciones de Mamá P. sobre la importancia del afecto físico y de la estimulación en nuestros cuidados.

You cannot love if you have not been loved.

Consequently, the most powerful rewards we can receive are the attention, approval, and affection of people we love and respect. Similarly, the most powerful pain we experience is the loss of that attention, approval, and affection- the most obvious example being, of course, the death of a loved one. This is why even our greatest intellectual, athletic, or professional triumphs seem empty if we have no one with whom to share them.

where they love they do not desire and where they desire they cannot love" (p. 183).

It is a curious truth that many cats enjoy warmer, more convivial, even affectionate relationships with humans than they could ever do with fellow felines.

Is I the insomniac's question? Are you a dendrite or a dream? Between oblivion and affection, which one is fear and which protection?

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Love needs no chains.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The mind is everything. What you think you become. You yourself, as much anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

A dog is a special being. The one who lacks a dog has nothing to give his love to.

Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

Marjorie, darling, listen to me. You know—God knows—you're not the first girl in my life nor the second, but I swear to you this is new. The reason you're so crazily in love is that I am, too. There's no other reason. It happens once in a lifetime to everyone, and I swear to God I'm beginning to think it's happened for us.

Marjorie, my sweet, we've fallen in love with each other, that's all. You love me. I love you. Don't lose any sleep over it." Electric stings ran through her arms and legs. She put