Affection Quotes

Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much aspersonal choice.

That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her.

To Love The Kingdom Life Is A Choice

Love is always by definition a choice

The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given

Everything is a choice and we can always choose to come from a place of love.

For happiness, love is your only choice.

Love shouldn't be dictated

Happiness is a choice not a result of something you do.

Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.

I believe that the ‘love of your life’ is just a person that you chose. You choose them because you believe that they’re it.

You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her.

So you know what mean when I say that I don't think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You're just pulled to that person like true north, whether it's good for you or bound to break your heart.

Love isn't an accident. Love is a choice.

Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Every human is a school subject. This is rather a metaphorical way of saying it, to put it straight, those you love are few, and the ones you detest are many.

In this life I choose you.

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of us has to carry the weight alone—You have never been alone.

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

I never needed the Society, " she says, "to Match me." (-Lei)

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that.

...when I see you here amidst all this, I realise that I proposed to a very small part of you. I thought I was giving you a home and a position, but here I see that I am taking you away from so much.

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

Love is not like Ice, that melts but the foundation of Respect, Love and Care

It is easy to give without loving yet DIFFICULT TO LOVE without GIVING.After all Love is a Vern, it must be demonstrated genuinely.