Quotes about Affection

When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with science.

I bought into the lie," she said, "that because Darin has a strong, masculine personality he must be the manipulator and I must be the victim. God showed me that it was really more the other way around. By withholding affection, respect, and communication, I often played the role of the manipulator.

response—"Lord, how can I love him [or her] today like he [or she] has never been loved?" The answer may be very practical: take over a chore, speak a word of encouragement, take care of something that needs fixing. Or it may be romantic, or over-the-top creative, or generous, or very simple.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

we can live without sex, but we cant live without love.

Our deepest longing is not for sex but for love. We can live without sex, but we cannot live without love. And

can sing my wife a song, but she really knows I love her when I do the dishes.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.

He knew, for the moment, that he felt affection for Roark; an affection that held pain, astonishment and helplessness.

His life was crowded , public and impersonal as a city square. The friend of humanity had no single private friend. People came to him; he came close to no one. He accepted all. His affection was golden, smooth and even, like a great expanse of sand; there was no wind of discrimination to raise dunes; the sands lay still and the sun stood high. ---Toohey.