Quotes About Affection

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

And the word ??????????is a deep word, signifying to suffer with us until we are relieved. And this affection, thus stirred up, is it which moves him so cordially to help us.

Love descends better than ascends, and so does the love of Christ, who indeed is love itself, and therefore comes down to us himself; "I will come again and receive you unto myself" (says Christ), "that so where I am, you may be also." That last part of his speech gives the reason of it, and also divulges his entire affection.

What female heart can gold despise?What cat's averse to fish?

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met.

Give me romance, and I'll dispense With the rodomontade of common sense.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

I love thee — I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day.

This intense desire to control is an attempt to maintain dignity in spite of low self-regard. Think about it. In addition to keeping everything safe, the exercise of power temporarily boosts angry men's low self-esteem. [...] Like many kings and other powerful people, however, angry men will soon doubt the affection of those they control. They will always wonder if they are "really" loved by family members, or if their family is just acting that way out of fear.

All of us have been through the process of being born and entering this world with three essential biological needs: security and survival, power and control, affection and esteem.

Perhaps 90 percent of its desires, psychologists say, are unconscious; in other words, many of our deepest commitments to symbols of security, power, and affection in the culture are rooted in desires that are absolutely impossible to achieve.

Daisy loved all parades, especially this one, whose crush of observers, prone to impulsive kisses, made it one more piece of the mistletoe under which she lived her life

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsWhich I gaze on so fondly today,Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,Like fairy gifts fading away,Thou would'st still be ador'd as this moment thou art,Let thy loveliness fade as it will,And around the dear ruin each wish of my heartWould entwine itself verdantly still.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art.

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.