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Affection Quote by C S Lewis

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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved persons ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. --C. S. Lewis

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to…

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“I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical".”

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“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It…

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What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. C. S. Lewis

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“If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching…

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“Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world?”

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“Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned…

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.…

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“He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.”

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My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you…

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Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

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I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary…

William Shakespeare

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There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of…

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A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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Affection! Affection is false.

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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness…

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Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot…

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The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the…

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son…

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If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that…

John Taylor Gatto

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