Affection Quotes

• We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

  Pindar

  Christmas, Reality, Given

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• You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Two, Numbers

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Passion, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  Sigmund Freud

  Long, Effort, Feelings

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• 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

  Love, Passion, Kissing

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (Volume I)". Book by Christian Nestell Bovee, 1862.

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• When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, People, Important

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• One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, People, Achievement

  "Cancer Ward". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

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• To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Perfection, Selfishness

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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• Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Children, Father, Men

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “The Strong Family”, Zondervan

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dog, Cat

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

  Basil Rathbone

  Regret, Heart, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Anger

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• For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Regret, Sunshine

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.14, Atlântico Press

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• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Self, Enemy

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• Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

  St. Jerome

  Love, True Love, Love You

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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  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

  War, Names, Memorial

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.146, Purdue University Press

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• No decking sets forth anything so much as affection.

  Philip Sidney

  Sir Philip Sidney (1983). “Sir Philip Sidney: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.422, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Art, Attitude

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• Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Spring, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

  Jules Michelet

  Strong, Powerful, Passion

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• How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Girl, Men, Careers

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