Affection Quote by Charles Dickens

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ...

— Anonymous

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

— James Hollis

But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart

— Henry Ward Beecher

All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

— Cesare Pavese

... Natural affections and instincts, my dear sir, are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, but like other beautiful works of His, they…

— Charles Dickens

Among those people that appear in our life, some are to teach us, some to comfort us, some to share and some to love

— Hussein Nishah

Every single choice we make, no matter how small, is the ground where who we are meets what is in the world. And the…

— Wayne Muller

Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

— William Ellery Channing

We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte