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Quotes about Affinity

The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
People like people who like them.
- John Maxwell
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
- CS Lewis
for you will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love.
- James Allen
It is significant that the word "holiness" derives from a word meaning "wholeness" and the word "meditation," usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word "medication." The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
- William Faulkner
Who do I love? I love people who are easy to talk to.
- Marty Rubin
The human mind is a form of "energy," a part of it being spiritual in nature. When the minds of two people are coordinated in a SPIRIT OF HARMONY, the spiritual units of energy of each mind form an "affinity," which constitutes the psychic phase of the Master Mind.
- Napoleon Hill
My mother reinforced this affinity for the natural world. In the grandeur of its design—the skeleton of a leaf, the labors of an ant colony, the glow of a bleach-white moon—she experienced the wonder and humility that others reserved for religious worship, and in our youth, she'd lectured Maya and me about the damage humans could inflict when they were careless in building cities or drilling oil or throwing away garbage.
- Barack Obama
The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.
- Aristotle
She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them
- LM Montgomery