Affection Quotes
Maybe love isn’t meant to be bliss never-ending. Maybe love is unwavering support and befriending.
Your face is engraved in my mind. I can’t erase it. I don’t want to. Because as much as I hate you, I love you. And I love you unforgettably.
There is no suspension, no whispered prayer for silk to stop my fall. There is only the falling, and it goes on and on, in fierce silence and sharp bursts of breath.
Please stop. If you keep chipping off little pieces of my heart, soon there will be no heart left with which to love you.
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.
Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.
When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.
In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
Letting go is actually a healthy foundation upon which we can open up to real love—to giving, receiving, and experiencing it authentically and organically.
Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won’t single-highhandedly help you resolve them.
These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.
Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.
By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.
To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.
There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.
Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.
Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.
Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.
Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that.
When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.
It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.
We exercise kindness in any moment when we recognize our shared humanity—with all the hopes, dreams, joys, disappointments, vulnerability, and suffering that implies.
Just knowing that you are there and you would be thinking about me while I am thinking about you makes my heart feel serene and contented.
When twilight sleeps holding the nightIn your arms you embrace me tightRunaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love my heart misses
You are so adorable. You can never be bad. Everyone has a hysterical part in himself, and I may be that part you. I’m just a lunatic. Maybe, a demon. And you.You’re the world.
Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.
All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage
We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright.
The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.
Her legs are two rivers, and the delta where they bleed into each other is the well of ecstasy.