Affection! Affection is false.
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.
I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.
To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.
Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because we're thinking about things like financial resources or shelter, or even love and affection, but we also possess resources that we sometimes can't access.
People should treat the oceans like we do anything else that we care about - with consideration, with care, and affection. That's it. For that we must educate.
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
I have no fondness for pure form at all.
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.
The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses.
Christ has not conquered my affections if He has to compete for my attention.
When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.