Affection Quotes
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.
The third element of love is mudita, joy. True love always brings joy to ourselves and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
Our joy in life is inexorably determined by the degree to which we love.
One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.
. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.
she wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare.
the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.
the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.
There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.
This was it, he knew it, was sure of it, this was the door which would take him back—
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.
-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
Do everything in mindfulness so you can really be there, so you can love.
In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.
Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...
But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.
I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.
Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.
Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh-ho, the holly!This life is most jolly.
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
If a woman is given only a limited amount of time to spend with the man she loves, she endures the separation by constantly recalling and reliving every moment down to the finest detail.
I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.
You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—
I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.
Bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.