Affections Quote by Author Saidah Brown

“Nagma wohi nagma hai jo rooh sune aur rooh sunaye (music is that which originates from the heart and touches the soul.”

— Ustad Amir Khan

“Wherever our heart touches the One, in the small or the big, it finds the touch of the infinite.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.

— John de Ruiter

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys…

— Roman Payne

“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will…

— John Piper

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily…

— James Fenimore Cooper

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,…

— John Sergeant Wise

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or…

— Amelia Barr

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:…

— Joseph Butler

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

— Laurence Sterne

“Necessity is very often the mother of romance.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

— Washington Irving