Affection Quotes

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

One does silly things when one is twelve.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

She shook her head. She was so pale under the diffuse lamp-light that she looked almost transparent, as if Simon could have looked right through her. The way, he supposed, he always had.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

I have a thing for things that last.

All of us need to be constantly reminded it takes a heap of living and loving to make a house a home.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion.

Never carry the baggage of your past relationships on the honeymoon of your future relationships.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.

Our love is the reason romance was created.

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

I fly through memory to find a newborn love.

To dream on occasion is not dreaming, To love on occasion is not love.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.

When he kisses me, I cry. I explain it's not because I wish he were someone else, it's because it's such a shock to the system to be desired after feeling so completely abandoned.

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

In the land of light there is only one currency. The currency of love.

Maggie squeezes my hand. It’s a silent message that everything will be okay. Somehow I believe her. In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

To find love is the great human undertaking...and it's always complicated by our compulsions and unconscious patterns, to say nothing of issues of trust and control.

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we trust each other.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

Tell me what we had was real, I whisper.

I will be the one to leave you.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.