Quotes about Affection
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.
- Thomas Merton
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves
- St. Augustine
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
- Confucius
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return.
- Aristotle
I'm glad my first date is with you, Nate," she said as we started out of the house. "In a lot of ways, it feels like coming home." "I was thinking the same thing.
- Terri Blackstock
Is it any wonder that I loved my regiment?
- Theodore Roosevelt
By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.
- Thomas a Kempis
Whoever loves much, does much...
- Thomas a Kempis
Not every affection which seems good is to be immediately followed. Neither is every opposite affection to be immediately avoided. Sometimes it is expedient to use restraint even in good desires and wishes, lest through importunity you fall into distraction of mind, lest through want of discipline you become a stumbling block to others.
- Thomas a Kempis
Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.
- Thomas a Kempis
Mightily and long must a man strive within himself before he learn altogether to overcome himself, and to draw his whole affection towards God.
- Thomas a Kempis