We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“My lovers suffocate me! Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin, Jostling me through streets and public halls...coming… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
“Thank you,” she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then she takes… — Caprice Crane Copy Share Image
“Ever since she was a young girl, [Patricia Highsmith] had felt an extraordinary empathy for animals, particularly cats. The creatures, she said,… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I don't meet many people that are evil. I meet human beings who are flawed, who are mentally ill and have enormous… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Maumivu ya matatizo ya yule aliyekukosea hayana tofauti na maumivu ya matatizo ya wewe uliyekosewa. Adui yako (kwa mfano) akifiwa na mke… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don't treat everything superficially. And I… — John Green Copy Share Image
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger. A man and a woman fall in love, as they say; each is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
The world may not applaud us for wiping running noses, driving in carpools, or talking with our teenager into the wee hours… — Carolyn Mahaney Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops,… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
Raksha Bandhan: The most famous Indian festival, Raksha Bandhan is celebrated in the month of Sravan. The day symbolizes love, affection and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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