‘I knew you’d kiss me.’ ‘How?’ I say. Because I didn’t know myself. ‘Because I am in pain,’ he says. ‘That’s the only way I get your attention.’

UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one’s own wife.

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.

I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations

I understood. I suffered. But whose sake was I suffering for? I kept thinking of Señor Saguaro’s question: Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others’?

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

[L]asting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural—not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term,...

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person’s welfare. Love is treating someone, in the Kantian sense, never as a means but as an end in themselves. Love is sacrifice, love is something...

Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.

I still have affection for my brothers. I still have affection for you, but there’s bad with the good.

True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.

No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention.

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that ¦

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog

Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.

No institution of learning of Ingersoll’s day had courage enough to confer upon him an honorary degree; not only for his own intellectual accomplishments, but also for his influence upon the minds of the learned...

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

That night she dreamed of the deer. Strangely, the animal was holding her. She cuddled close into the soft fur and touched and kissed it gently. In the morning her pillow was wet with tears.

To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in...

Mutual affection only leads to co-operation and peace this propagates happiness and prosperity in the society.

PDF—is it a document type, or Public Display of ‘Fection? I’ll let you know after I print it out and cuddle with it.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower’s cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

A true friend doesn’t have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

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.

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question “Do you see the same truth?” would be “I see nothing and I...

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that...

She was so delicate that, while we sat beneath the linden branches, a leaf would fall and drift down and touch her skin, and it would leave a bruise. So as we sat in the...

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

What to one person is common courtesy is to another tender words of life – and by the same token, what one person intends to show as great affection may be to his beloved an...

We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Jealousy is the grave of affection

It should be a place where each individual’s dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and...

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that...

Unknowingly, he prepared me to survive the rest of my days with the way he shielded himself from emotional vulnerabilities that slowly destroy the rest of us.

Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my life. She expanded the outer edges of my world, helped me draw a...

The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some...

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if...

Grab life by the tail, and then pet it.

But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy...