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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. -- C. S. Lewis
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Affection is the broadest basis of a good life. -- George Eliot
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. -- Audrey Hepburn
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. -- Jane Austen
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. -- Khalil Gibran
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. -- Christopher Hitchens
Affection! Affection is false. -- Elizabeth I
The Noblest form of Affection -- Oscar Wilde
Affection exaggerates its own offenses ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles. -- Leigh Hunt
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. -- Mason Cooley
Most people would rather give than get affection. -- Aristotle
Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated. -- Bertrand Russell
Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought. -- Robert Frost
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Affection makes your spirit slither out from its concealing spot. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. -- Mike Murdock
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. -- Arthur Helps
Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind. -- Amanda Mosher
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. -- Dalai Lama
Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. -- John Wolcot
Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes. -- William Shakespeare
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. -- Thomas Browne
The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen. -- Lee Iacocca
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. -- Walter Scott
Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. -- William Shakespeare
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. -- Isabel Allende
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. -- Milan Kundera
Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward. -- William Shakespeare
Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly. -- Dalai Lama
Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory. -- Jo Coudert
Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. -- Walt Whitman
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection -- Pindar
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. -- Sonya Hartnett
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source. -- Melanie Rawn
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. -- Marcel Proust
I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. -- Ambrose Bierce
I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open. -- Jody Watley
No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. -- Damon Galgut
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation. -- Allen Ginsberg
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection. -- Khalil Gibran
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue. -- John Dryden
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat. -- Emily Dickinson
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. -- Mark Twain
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present. -- John Lubbock
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -- Gautama Buddha
Somebody gotta step up Girl I'm that somebody. -- Bryson Tiller
Most people would rather get than give affection -- Aristotle
I wanna kiss you, girl, I wanna kiss you Girl, I wanna love you. -- Partynextdoor
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection -- Arthur Helps
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -- Buddha
Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father. -- Brennan Manning
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. -- Theophile Gautier
I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy. -- Andres Iniesta
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us we should guide them, guide them -- Charles Dickens
A gentleman knows when to listen, when to comment, and when to simply hold his woman and kiss her tears away. -- Thoughts of a real man
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. -- Tupac Shakur
Expressions of affection, like putting your arm around someone's shoulder, holding hands, or giving a kiss good night, involve the principle of honesty. -- John Bytheway
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it -- George Bernard Shaw
Girl you so sexy You don't know what to do with all the attention on you All the affection, all the attention All these intentions towards you. -- Partynextdoor
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. -- David Duchovny
When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. -- Henny Youngman
My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion. -- Radhanath Swami
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. -- Agnes Smedley
It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.' -- Alex Gibney
The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. -- Xun Zi
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. -- Buddha
My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn't get her breakfast, but she doesn't sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine. -- Joko Beck
While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache. -- John Bytheway
Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered. -- L. Lionel Kendrick
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard. -- Jeff Ross
affection is a habit. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Entire affection hateth nicer hands. -- Edmund Spenser
Jealousy is the grave of affection. -- Mary Baker Eddy
The more merit, the less affection. -- Baltasar Gracian
Hatreds are the cinders of affection. -- Walter Raleigh
My childhood lacked affection and ambience. -- Jacqueline de Ribes
Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection. -- Robert Owen
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Her affection for everything she could love increased. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Remember your natural affection for all of creation. -- Rob Brezsny
There is no power greater than true affection. -- Seneca the Younger
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection. -- William James
When affection only speaks, truth is not always there. -- Thomas Middleton
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. -- Ambrose Bierce
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. -- Jane Austen
The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment. -- Robert A. Johnson
No decking sets forth anything so much as affection. -- Philip Sidney
Every human being I know craves love and affection. -- Terry McMillan
Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices. -- Franz Liszt
Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection. -- Aristotle
To lead men, you have to lead them with affection. -- J. R. D. Tata
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another. -- Mason Cooley
Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. -- Will Cuppy
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection. -- Moliere
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. -- Charles Rosen
I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports. -- Jeff Perry
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail. -- Robert Lloyd
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. -- Augustine Birrell
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. -- Bertrand Russell
Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow. -- Confucius
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost. -- Charlotte Gray
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement. -- Alain de Botton
Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection. -- John Lyly

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