Top 100 Quotes About Affection And Love
#1. I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.
Les Dawson
#2. Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.
Bryant McGill
#3. I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
Ted Allen
#4. My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.
Nadya Suleman
#5. The practical implementation of friendship, affection and love consists of incorporating the welfare (the rational welfare) of the person involved into one's own hierarchy of values, then acting accordingly.
Ayn Rand
#6. True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
Libba Bray
#7. I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
Randall Kennedy
#8. spiritual life is not a life of laws and precepts but a life of participation, affection and love, a life mingled and mixing with God.
James Bryan Smith
#9. To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
Richard Russo
#10. We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.
Gary Zukav
#11. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.
Ruth Hegarty
#12. 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
#13. When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
Radhanath Swami
#14. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.
Allen Ginsberg
#15. Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.
Dave Guerrero
#16. Because affection, she had learned, was such a civilized thing, compared to love. It exacted so much less and was therefore more enduring. And endurable.
Karen Fisher
#17. What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.
Alyson Noel
#18. Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.
Chinelo Okparanta
#19. I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
Tullian Tchividjian
#20. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.
Mayank Kashyap
#21. Love,affection, attention and validation - These things cannot be controlled or coerced from another. They are given willingly to a genuine person who can meet the needs of the other.
Anonymous
#22. Outpouring of affection for God, of resting in his presence, of good feelings towards everyone and sentiments and prayers like theseare suspect if they do not express themselves in practical love which has real effects.
St. Vincent
#23. Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#24. I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.
John McCain
#25. It is a severe cruelty inflicted upon women ... that we should be the ones who so desperately need love ... affection ... acceptance.And yet, we suffer ... many of us, for lack of it throughout our entire lives.-Shackles of Honor
Marcia Lynn McClure
#26. It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
St. Jerome
#27. Without love, things disperse around; love holds things tightly! It prevents them to move away and disappear on the horizons!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit
Maya Angelou
#29. Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.
Amanda Mosher
#30. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest -
Charlotte Bronte
#31. Food is one part. Love is another part. So, the food will give them physical nutrition. The love and affection which you show, will give them mental nutrition.
Narayan
#32. When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?
Sayo Masuda
#33. Every human being I know craves love and affection.
Terry McMillan
#34. If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
Janis Joplin
#35. Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Bernadette Peters
#36. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.
Harry Harlow
#37. Your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Anonymous
#38. I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.
Margaret Cho
#39. The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Princess Diana
#40. We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.
Lara Dutta
#42. People were very passionate and over the top about showing me their love and affection, and they memorized my songs in Spanish.
Thalia
#43. In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
B.F. Skinner
#44. It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go.
Gillian Flynn
#45. But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
Eric Roberts
#46. You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.
Amy Dickinson
#47. The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#48. Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.
Ashley Purdy
#49. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#51. For years, she'd mistaken habit and affection for true love. She had assumed that the love she gave her husband was a reflection of the love he felt for her, and now, because of her blindness, she was alone.
Kristin Hannah
#52. say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. I have failed, and failed, and failed again,' he said. 'But no amount of failure can move Elyon's hand of affection away from me. It's inescapable. To live boldly for that kind of love is the least I can do.
Patrick Carman
#54. I was an open field, full and plentiful, needing tender love and care. My parents drove the plow over me, tearing up my soil. They left me broken. Thirsty for love. Hungry for affection.
Tiffany Aleman
#55. Love may exist without jealousy, although this is rare: but jealousy may exist without love, and this is common; for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter no less than on that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride as often as by affection.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
Mary Baker Eddy
#57. 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.
Amy Cuddy
#58. 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
#59. It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.
John Caudwell
#60. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous problems, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was a totally dark energy that had no humanity or sense of love or affection for anything in their life. That's very rare.
Richard Gere
#61. It might sound silly but I believe that kissing someone is something intimate, and it shouldn't be a game. For me, it's linked to affection. And kissing someone just for fun of it without any emotions isn't my thing. It would mean nothing at all.
Katja Michael
#62. I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten
#63. It is in the imperceptible space between that which touches and that which is touched that one body can be felt, no matter how closely, to be different from another.
Daniel Heller-Roazen
#64. This being requires no proof of love. They are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and for them my everlasting Love and affection will never be diminished. They cannot drift into unworthiness.
William Paul Young
#65. We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?
George Etherege
#66. May God always keep us this way
In peace, love and affection.
Cesaria Evora
#67. A Warrior of Light needs love.
Love and affection are part of his nature.
He makes use of solitude,
but is not used by it.
Paulo Coelho
#68. Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. When the wind blows in your face,
when you feel you are losing your head,
when the going gets tough,
and when all else fails,
look inside you,
you are not alone.
Malak El Halabi
#70. The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
it never fades away
Susan Polis Schutz
#71. A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
Georgette Mosbacher
#72. people aren't supposed to be alone all the time? That we need love and affection, and every once in a while, we need a man to make us come so hard we forget our own name?" I giggled. "You're terrible.
Sadie Grey
#73. I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.
Romulus Linney
#74. It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection ... a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.
L. Ron Hubbard
#75. To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow
Charlotte Bronte
#76. Love blinds me so deep and dark, I see the world full of innocence, thoughts filled with affection, time brimming with hope and future flowing with my dreams.
Harshada Pathare
#77. Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.
Jeanne Phillips
#78. Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#79. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#80. A concrete love is a mass of emotion formed into a compound mixture
of affection, care, desire and expectation.
Munia Khan
#81. Your treachery is what I have come to expect. And my heart, you never deserved its affection.
Joel T. McGrath
#82. He new it frustrated her that he had dehydrated parts of his heart so thoroughly, no amount of drenching love and affection could revive them.
Suanne Laqueur
#83. There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
Arthur Wing Pinero
#84. In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#85. Falling for someone romantically is more complex. Many
of the old classic languages refer to three different types
of love or affection. Roughly translated, they include
general, brotherly and sexual love. When all three are
present, a relationship is indeed rich.
Nicholas Boothman
#86. I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life.
Marilyn Sewell
#87. Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.
Jean Paul
#88. No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Abdul Qadeer Khan
#89. 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.
Orson Scott Card
#90. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.
Courtney Summers
#91. It is perhaps the simplicity of his affection, the patience of his understanding and loyalty that makes him too easy to love, for his love is taken for granted by many, who give back nothing in return.
Claire North
#92. You always hold a piece of yourself back, Annith. For all your love and affection and kindness, there is always a part of yourself that you withhold from others.
Robin LaFevers
#93. Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
Gautama Buddha
#94. I think attraction and affection are often mistaken for love. For most people, recognizing true love is difficult. Realizing it exists within us, however, is quite simple. All we have to do is walk away. True love tugs at our heart until we return.
Scott Hildreth
#95. The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the 'love account.'
Zig Ziglar
#96. The India I Love, does not make the headlines, but I find it wherever I go - in field or forest, town or village, mountain or desert - and in the hearts and minds of people who have given me love and affection for the better part of my lifetime.
Ruskin Bond
#97. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.
Charlotte Bronte
#98. My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you.
Shakira
#99. by allowance" and "loving with personal love." This distinction applies to books as well as to men and women; and in the case of the not very numerous authors who are the objects of the personal affection, it brings a curious consequence with it. There
Jane Austen
#100. Dorotheus writes: Don't look for the affection of your neighbor. He who looks for it is troubled when he does not get it. You yourself, however, have to give witness to the love for your neighbor and to offer him rest, and thus you will bring your neighbor to love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
