Top 44 Quotes About Affectionate Love
#2. Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.
Je Tsongkhapa
#3. By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#4. I assure that I should breathe my last without pain and almost with joy if I were certain of leaving to the friends who love me, not poignant regrets, but a gentle, affectionate, somewhat melancholy remembrance of me.
Frederic Bastiat
#5. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
Michael Morpurgo
#6. That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
Harold S. Kushner
#7. Interacting with Indian children was so fulfilling. They are so affectionate. Every school I've visited, I've been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and love they've showered me with!
Ken Spillman
#8. I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies.
Ruskin Bond
#9. I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
Malaika Arora Khan
#10. Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.
Richard Russo
#11. Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.
Joseph Farah
#12. I don't understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You're obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!
Colleen Houck
#13. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.
Ellen J. Barrier
#14. She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
Jane Austen
#15. By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
Mary J. Blige
#16. It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#17. He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
Jane Austen
#18. You," he said distinctly, "are, I am quite certain, going to be more trouble than you are worth.
Lynn Kurland
#19. Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.
Michael Bassey
#20. He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate
Theodor Reik
#21. We can lay down our lives for those we love not by physically dying for them but rather by living for them - giving of our time; always being present in their lives; serving them; being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family and to all men - as the Savior taught.
Claudio R.M. Costa
#22. For you know we do not mind our dress
When we are going home
Emily Dickinson
#23. I love you." His voice was straightforward, affectionate. "You make me remember who I used to be. You make me want to be that man again. Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together. I'm yours, if you'll have me.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#24. Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
Ian McKellen
#25. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.
T.H. White
#26. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis
#27. The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.
Lorrie Moore
#28. Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.
Monica Murphy
#29. This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what she wants - virtuousness - or what she needs - protection.
Nenia Campbell
#30. There is nothing so strong as the force of love; there is no love so forcible as the love of an affectionate mother to her natural child.
Elizabeth Grimston
#31. John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.
Lu Xun
#32. 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
#33. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#34. We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
Edward Dahlberg
#35. The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank
#36. They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.
Robert A. Caro
#37. By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#39. How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.
Kristen Ashley
#40. Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?
Kristen Ashley
#41. At that moment it was clearer to me than ever that a thousand books on the art of loving add nothing to a simple kiss, nor a thousand speeches on love to a single affectionate gesture.
A.G. Roemmers
#42. When I say "when you're always almost lonely, you forget to take it slowly," I mean that you don't always take care of yourself.
Ladyhawke
#43. With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to let the love of our country soar above all minor passions, I tender you the assurance of my affectionate esteem and respect.
Thomas Jefferson
#44. This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will.
Augustine Of Hippo