Quotes About Affection

Amor est mihi causa sequendi - I serve because I love.

Seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines, are worse than none; and, however it may carry with the appearance of heightened enjoyment, it defeats all the felicity of affection, by leaving it no point to fix upon; divided love is never happy.

Let those love now who never loved before;Let those who always loved, now love the more.

They didn't speak, only touched and kissed, feeling the understanding that they loved each other deeply and permanently—that for him, she was the one woman who would stand in his life for all women, and in her life, he would stand for all men.

I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.

Choose your love. Love your choice.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God" William Barclay

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love." — Thomas Traherne

Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.

It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.

Being warm and friendly also means liking—not just loving—your children. The

It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

What is it to glorify God? Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments.

Read not the word carelessly, but with seriousness and affection; as the oracle of heaven, the well of salvation, the book of life.

There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.

And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or to be indifferent to you. Do not ask me to have no interest in how you pass your time. But if we are separated, set me a task, something that will be a daily link with you.

Tutti, tutti noi abbiamo fallito. Desideriamo tutti un castigo. Desideriamo tutti di farci carico di ogni tipo di penitenza, ma sai, figlia mia, che in amore -riesco a malapena a dirlo- ma in amore i nostri errori non sembrano durare molto a lungo".