True Affection Quotes

• Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Self, Enemy

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• The course of true love never did run smooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Life, Summer

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 132

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• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  "Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner". Book by A. A. Milne, 1928.

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  True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Life, Sex

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• Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

  Simone Weil

  Single, Solitude, Affection

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Valentines Day, Forgiveness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Love, Loyalty, Grateful

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• I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Passion, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no power greater than true affection.

  Seneca the Younger

  Affection, Greater

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• True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

  Libba Bray

  And Love, Affection, Purity

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

  Michael Jackson

  Spiritual, Song, Art

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• There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.

  Thomas Browne

  Love, Two, Body

  "Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings".

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• 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

  Love Is, Hands, Band

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• How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Decay, Fancy, Affection

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