Affection Quotes

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

We must love our neighbor as being made in the image of God and as an object of His love.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Tears are words the heart can't express

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

To love beauty is to see light.

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

And I fear that my place gets taken by some other one, very lucky and not too shy, who flirts with your eyes while I’m the one who’s crazy about them.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying. Our culture doesn't love love; It loves the idea of love. It wants the emotion without the sacrifice.

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

If you really love something, you have to know how to let go.

I live to love and laugh a lot and that's all I need

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.

I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

Being fly is something that I consider myself. I would love to be at some point.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.