Affection Quotes

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Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. — John Wolcot
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects… — Benjamin Barber
Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them… — Brenda Ueland
For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every… — Deepak Chopra
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested… — Joseph Butler
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: particular… — Joseph Butler
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole,… — Dawn Powell
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the… — Matthew Simpson
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. — Joseph Addison
The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over… — Stanley Kubrick
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Ignatius Loyola
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead… — Colson Whitehead
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. — Mike Murdock
The actress I had the most fun working with was Alex Kingston. It was a fun relationship to play because it was a combination of… — Paul McCrane
Weâ€™ve all selected the wrong partners, all gotten hurt, and hopefully all moved on wiser for the experience. But there are those who, even in… — Paul Dini
I thinkâ€¦to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art.… — Michael Jackson
Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heartâ€™s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration… — Mirra Alfassa

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