Affection Quotes - Page 11

• There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

  Daniel Keyes

  People, Giving, Materials

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Thinking, Air

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Eye, Home

  Charles Dickens (2003). “A Christmas Carol”, p.182, Broadview Press

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Arise, Duty

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is absurd, and that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as a matter of fact, certain persons do exist with an enormous capacity for friendship and for taking delight in other people's lives; and that such persons know more of truth than if their hearts were not so big.

  William James

  Life, Heart, People

  "Essays on Faith and Morals".

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• You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Rights, Circles

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1880). “Vindication of natural diet. Refutation of deism. Proposal for putting reform to the vote. Address to the people on the death of the Princess Charlotte. History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, etc. Journal at Geneva (including ghost stories) and on return to England, 1816. The assassins. On the punishment of death. On life. On love. On a future state. Speculations on morals. System of government by juries. Fragment on reform. On the revival of li”

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• You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
  Pray love me little, so you love me long.

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Life, Strong

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.97

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• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more affection I have for them. It is pure affection, and filled with reverance for the solitude of others. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Single, Brother, Silence

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.280, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Strength, Imagination, Add

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1852). “Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments”, p.36

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• A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Nature, Grateful

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

  John Ruskin

  Selfish, Evil, Wickedness

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• No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Brother, Kindness

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• Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Best Love, Liberated

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.136, Routledge

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Home, Humble

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

  Washington Irving

  Home, Rallying

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• It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

  John Bunyan, Henry Stebbing (1859). “The entire works of John Bunyan”, p.270

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• If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Expression, Long

  Statement during trial, March 18, 1922.

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• Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Long, Praying

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.422

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• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Educational, Reading

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.131

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• The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

  Pliny the Elder

  Country, Stars, Honesty

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