Affection Quotes

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Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you. — Swami Vivekananda
. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little… — Vincent de Paul
It`s important to know where you`ve come from so that you can know where you`re going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking… — Cary Grant
I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What… — Antonio Machado
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. — Dalai Lama
It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues… — Isamu Noguchi
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed… — Jane Austen
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object,… — Richard Sibbes
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul. — Richard Sibbes
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heartâ€™s affections and the truth of the Imagination â€“ What the imagination seizes as Beauty… — John Keats
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. — Bell Hooks
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to… — John Calvin
Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal. — Alfred Hitchcock
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions,… — Thomas Browne
When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were… — Russell D. Moore
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. — Melissa Etheridge
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus

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