Quotes about Affection
Love attracts only one thing and that thing is love.
- Napoleon Hill
I'm not scared of it... I feel that I am a cat lady, I'm a little bit crazy because I love them so much and I dedicate my life to them.
- Beth Ostrosky Stern
if we face unpleasant feelings with care, affection, we can transform them to the kind that is healthy and that nourishes us.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The things that we love tell us what we are.
- Thomas Merton
If we do not respond to human affection we cannot be loved by God in the way in which He has willed to love us—with the Heart of the Man, Jesus Who is God, the Son of God, and the anointed Christ.
- Thomas Merton
Who can be good, if not made so by loving? —St. Augustine
- Kathleen Norris
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- CS Lewis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
- CS Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
- CS Lewis
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- George Bernard Shaw
Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.
- George Eliot