.jpg "Affection") |
| Affection |
When elderly invalids meet with fellow victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. Logan Pearsall Smith
Existence warps too much. It sets us so we can only receive certain kinds of opposite numbers. But in the abstract, in essence, any two human beings can find warmth together. Norman Mailer
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express. E. M. Forster
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Stephen Fry
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease. Samuel Ullman
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. Henry De Montherlant
It is healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. G. K. Chesterton
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection; that is the last and final and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement. Mark Twain
The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long. LA Rochefoucauld
If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the side of silence. George Eliot
Though in itself emotion counts for little; processes of mind must make good through emotion. Saint Exupery
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame; very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light flickering. As love grows older our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. Bruce Lee
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. George Jean Nathan
The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself. Marcel Proust
Affection never was wasted; if it enriches not the heart of, 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. Longfellow
Emotion has taught mankind to reason. Vauvenargues
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. Lord Chesterfield
We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Bertrand Russell
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. La Rochefoucauld
Most people would rather get than give affection. Aristotle
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossom of the heart no wind can touch. Yoshida Kenko
All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate. Michel Montaigne
Every person’s feelings have a front door and a side door by which they may be entered. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Andre Maurois
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. Saint-Exupery
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future. Alfred North Whitehead
Let’s just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what’s necessary, or that’s the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. Katherine Hepburn
The direct speech of feeling is allegorical and cannot be replaced by anything. Boris Pasternak
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than exhilaration. Somerset Maugham
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye. Sadi
It is not our exalted feelings; it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. Elizabeth Bowen
One ought to hold onto one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. Nietzsche
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. Samuel Johnson
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is my own. Goethe
We are minor in everything but our passions. Elizabeth Bowen
