A personβs unfilled desire to find love causes human beings to engage in inexplicable behavior. A person must exhibit the maturity of the soul to charitable express love for other people before other people will reciprocate by sharing feelings of mutual affection. To be loveable, we must learn how to love.
A life devoid of love and affection is worthless.
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Why do we love our grandparents so much? Part of the reason I think has to do with the tremendous natural affection and affinity that kids have for older people, whether they are their actual grandparents or not.
My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
