100 Quotes About Affection

We all need a little more affection in our lives. It’s good for our health and can even help us to be happier and healthier. If you’re not getting enough affection in your life, there are some great quotes on the topic that will help you out.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort...
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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. Unknown
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We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them — we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare. . Unknown
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You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?..' I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche..or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding. David Levithan
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can...
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It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being. John Joseph Powell
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
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Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. Jane Austen
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He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that made out in the hallways between classes, and got annoyed at even the slightest sappy moments in movies. But I knew he cared about me: he just conveyed it more subtly, as concise with expressing this emotion as he was with everything else. It was in the way he'd put his hand on the small of my back, for instance, or how he'd smile at me when I said something that surprised him. Once I might have wanted more, but I'd come around to his way of thinking in the time we'd been together. And we were together, all the time. So he didn't have to prove how he felt about me. Like so much else, I should just know. Sarah Dessen
We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every...
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. Veronica Roth
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If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. W.h. Auden
Had I been in love, I could not have been...
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Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Jane Austen
I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason...
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I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it. Mike Gayle
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I like the scientific spirit–the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine–it always keeps the way beyond open–always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake–after a wrong guess. Walt Whitman
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You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. C. Joybell C.
We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional...
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We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail. David Sedaris
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Most women go through life looking for love, and looking for someone to treat them like a queen. For some women finding real love seems to be something that will never happen. I believe that finding love is not as hard as people make it seem. The reason that some women can't find real love is because they look for more than just real love. A lot of women know what they need in a relationship, and thats for a man to love that woman with all of his heart, and to treat her real good. Most women have guys in their life or guys that try to get with them that could really love them and treat them real good. Those are usually the guys that get forced into that friend zone or rejected upfront. See those guys could give them what they need, but not what they want. “Wants” can be anything from a woman wanting a man to have certain materialistic things, or she could want him to look a certain way, those are a few examples of the things that some of them want, but they vary depending on the female. What some females don't understand is that none of the things that they want has anything with love or how that person will treat you. You could find a man that looks perfect, has a house and car, he can be a college graduate with a good job, and you could still end up being with a person that doesn't truly love you, and will treat you like shit. What I am trying to say is that the person who could treat you good and really love you could already be in your life, but you could have been blinded by the things you want in a man so you overlooked the person that you were really looking for. And by the way there are men that do the same thing; I just wanted to be clear on that. . Taisen Deshimaru
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The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend, " no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. . C.s. Lewis
The more attention you give to your loved ones, the...
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The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them. Michael Bassey Johnson
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The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways—and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. Paulo Coelho
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity... When people...
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Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity... When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. Gretchen Rubin
Love, they said, burns youand builds you. But with you,...
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Love, they said, burns youand builds you. But with you, there’s no ash. Just light. Kamand Kojouri
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort...
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Jane Austen
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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. Judith Martin
A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly...
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A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses. Amanda Mosher
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Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms. Thomm Quackenbush
How do you ever hold on to anybody?
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How do you ever hold on to anybody? Elizabeth Wein
She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were...
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She gave a low and delighted chuckle. Her eyes were black as a moonless December night and reflected the electric lights like stars. Elizabeth Wein
Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.
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Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence. Elizabeth Wein
Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your...
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Go to bed! Someone is anxious to come into your dream. Ljupka Cvetanova
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy."Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what isstrong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, Iam convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. Jane Austen
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But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion. Jonathan Edwards
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But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises. Jonathan Edwards
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection...
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Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn. Daniel Keyes
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really...
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We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts. Criss Jami
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I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and downright ugly at times and yet would have just eaten up any tiny bit of affection you had been willing to give, had you ever stopped your own happy life to notice. And then imagine that this hypothetical person is real, because he probably is.. Wish I’d met you. Wish I wasn’t your hypothetical. But you’re reading this, which means a few minutes ago, I went into that bathroom and pulled the trigger. You probably heard it. Sorry. You’re welcome. Thank you. And please. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please. Charles Yu
If it's public, it's not bonding.
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If it's public, it's not bonding. Will Advise
I am not sure if women are attracted to genius....
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I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one. Criss Jami
I will keep on loving you until eternity comes to...
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I will keep on loving you until eternity comes to make me love you more Munia Khan
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Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there's no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear. Anita Moorjani
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. There is a deep-seated fear, in most people, of the cold world and the possible cruelty of the herd; there is a longing for affection, which is often concealed by roughness, boorishness or a bullying manner in men, and by nagging and scolding in women. Passionate mutual love while it lasts puts an end to this feeling; it breaks down the hard walls of the ego, producing a new being composed of two in one. Bertrand Russell
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Inside each of us is a deep well of translucent water. A fluidity of thoughts and luminous feelings surrounds you and me. In the world of water, all life floats, the incandescent soul of the living begins, where you and I are indivisible, where I experience you inside of me. I see your beauty, feel your need for love and affection, hear your compassionate poems, and know the fragrant mysteries your great heart brews; by law divine, with sweet emotion, you and I shall mingle forevermore. . Kilroy J. Oldster
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Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!. Ramana Pemmaraju
I love you more than you love yourself! A fact...
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I love you more than you love yourself! A fact you will never realize. Ramana Pemmaraju
We are what comes to us and by what we...
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We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people loving us and by cultivating compassion for all humankind. Kilroy J. Oldster
Like a child who saves their favourite food on the...
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Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue. Kamand Kojouri
I fell in loveand then I became love.
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I fell in loveand then I became love. Kamand Kojouri
I would die for you, my love–in old age.
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I would die for you, my love–in old age. Ljupka Cvetanova
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We wait too long to tell the people we love that they are the very reason that we exist. We assume that our wife, child, other family members, and friends understand our love and affection. We assume that people we care about understand our enigmatic idiosyncrasies and willingly accept the shrouded reasons behind our demonstrable oddities. We assume that other people sense that we struggle valiantly in our blackened landscape. We presume that other people comprehend our struggle to glean meaning amongst the ashes spewed from the absurd circumstances that we operate. Sometimes we need to stop and tell the tenderhearted persons whom we care about that we love them and explain that our awkward strangeness is not a rejection of them. Kilroy J. Oldster
It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that...
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It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. Jennifer Haigh
Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re...
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Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with – just your money and power. Only affection brings genuine friends. AuliqIce
Animals in our lives can be a blessing.
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Animals in our lives can be a blessing. J. Wesley Porter
Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply...
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Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection? Len Deighton
The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to...
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The wind is blowing. Don’t bend if you want to please him. Ljupka Cvetanova
Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus,...
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Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time! Drew Barrymore
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[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. Unknown
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When a woman says she doesn't want to be your fling, it doesn't mean she wants to be your girlfriend either. All the signs and words may just be her way of accommodating you or showing that you're good company, and not because she loves you at all to want more from you. Temitayo Olami
Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are...
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Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are forever changing. Kamand Kojouri
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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion .. . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. Orhan Pamuk
How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand...
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How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you? Kamand Kojouri
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What is this lovethat makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this lovethat makes me declare 'I love you'even though I uttered itonly a moment ago? What is this love that keeps growing even when my chest is soreand it hurts to love you any more? Tell me: How am I to find what this love iswhen it was the one to find you, me, this verse, and this universe? . Kamand Kojouri
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I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes. When we are apart, I am extinguishedin the blackness of these skies. Kamand Kojouri
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True love is deep spiritual affection. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with. Mary Wollstonecraft
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I felt sad. I felt cold. I felt hurt. I felt forsaken and lonely. I felt doubtful and hesitant. I felt scared and deeply worried. I felt different, unknown, and unwelcome. I felt empty and woefully neglected. I felt weak and intimidated. I felt withdrawn and shy. I felt utterly hopeless. Then you held my hand, and I felt better. Richelle E. Goodrich
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From attraction and affection Cover of perfection Failure beyond texture to a painful lesson Everything that was from the start wasn't from the heart Criss Jami
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Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throbbing pain has slowly turned into numbing emptiness.. Laarni Venus Marie
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.......Love is such a biological feeling, which kills, without killing you biologically. Farooq A. Shiekh
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All I need to dois place my pen against paperand your lovewrites for me. Kamand Kojouri
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With you, I am. Without you, I am not. Kamand Kojouri
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Whenever you keep score in love, you lose. Kamand Kojouri
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The only path wide for us all is love. Kamand Kojouri
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Why didn't you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a song? A dance? In the skies littered with stars? Did you not get drunk? Why didn’t you write all this time? Did you not remember us in a film? A book? In idyllic dusks and dawns? Did you not get high? It is good that you didn't. For all is well. I am drunk and dazed. I have already forgotten youand your bewitching ways. Kamand Kojouri
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Like a pair of old slippers, I feel comfort andwarmth as I slip into you. No, that is too crude. Like the match to the wick, I ignite when we touch. My counterpart andlife's purpose. Yes, as though I've known you my whole life. Every scar, every failurehas become an affirmationof what should be: You. Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life. Kamand Kojouri
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I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me. I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me. Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us? Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect? I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness? I know the good is more than the bad. Much more. I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine. Kamand Kojouri
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She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer. Aya Ling
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…evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory. Karen Swallow Prior
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have a feeling that they can’t hide. Rachel Cohn
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...Mom equated money with affection...but I never cared about the money. I just wanted her to be healthy. J.D. Vance
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The way to my heart is through your heart. Marty Rubin
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A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things. Unknown
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Matters of the heart are so incalculable! Pawan Mishra
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…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections. Karen Swallow Prior
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Affection is invaluable. I will accept your heart as payment and change your mind. Amanda Mosher
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I crave the violence of your affection. I ache for the way it jumbles my insides and makes my heart feel like it's harboring a thunderstorm. I've never felt more alive in all my time on this earth, as I have, being underneath your touch. LeAnne Mechelle
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She says: ...love is really all that matters. He hears: ...really love to do it on the mattress. Anthony Liccione
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When the puppy licked my hand, we all knew he was the one for us J. Wesley Porter
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We could be having a good or a bad day and Bear would give you a warm greeting that could melt your heart J. Wesley Porter
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A criminal always returns home. Ljupka Cvetanova
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Butterfly KissesAged imperfectionsstitched upon my faceyears and years of wisdomearned by His holy grace. Quiet solitude in a humble homeall the family scattered nowlike nomads do they roam. Then a giftsent from abovea memorypure and tangiblewrapped in innocence andunquestioning love. A butterfly kisslands gently upon my cheekfrom an unseen childa kiss most sweet. Heaven grants graceand tears followas youth revisitsthis empty hollow. Muse
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Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of time I cradle your heartsisterly into mine... Muse
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Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots. Daniel Friday Danzor
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We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ("Why didn't he ask ? ") Erik Pevernagie
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Now I am twenty-eight, and am in reality more illiterate than many schoolboys of fifteen. It is true that I have thought more, and that my day dreams are more extended and magnificent; but they want (as the painters call it) keeping; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men. Ljupka Cvetanova
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Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufacture our own lot of goodness. If we ground everything we do upon a moral principle and especially love, affection, and compassion, we might not accomplish all the goals that we hoped to achieve, but we will not be hampered with unyielding regret or remorse for the effort expended. If we approach each stage in life with true passion, then each step along a broken or straight path is at least honest. If we honor the commitments that we make to ourselves and act to honor all our personal obligations with other people by devoting our entire intelligence, drive, and vital life force, and do not waste our effort on greedy, wanton, or wasteful activities, we shall grow stronger. Judicious deployment of personal resources ensures that we shall experience a sense of renewal at each important milepost along the way. If we maintain our vow of faith and love people freely, an internal lightness will guide us in our time of uncertainly. Kilroy J. Oldster
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Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness. Balroop Singh
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Passion lingers on a state of bliss Love loves you more when you kiss Munia Khan
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That our affections kill us not, nor dye. John Donne
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Love never dies but the affection/passion you have for each other may fade over time when you don't personally connect with each other. Kemi Sogunle
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If the good so loved and desired do appear possible and feasible in the attaining, then it exciteth the passion of hope, which is a compound of desire and expectation : when we look upon it as requiring our endeavour to attain it, and as it is to be had in a prescribed way, then it provokes the passion of courage or boldness, and concludes in resolution. Lastly, If this good be apprehended as preset, then ti provoketh to delight or joy. If the thing itself be present, the jy is greatest. If but the idea of it, either through the remainder or memory of the good that is past, or through the fore-apprehension of that which we expect, yet even this also exciteth our joy. And this joy is the perfection of all the rest of the affections, when it is raised on the full fruition of the good itself(575). Richard Baxter
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My love for you is passionate and strong. Lailah Gifty Akita