Affection Quote by George Elliot Download Open image “We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults” — George Elliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affection Faults Ignorance Love
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable. — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Look, I'm not really an affectionate person. People aren't meant to be together, forever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour,… — George Elliot Copy Share Image
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet… — George Elliot Copy Share Image
“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are” — George Elliot Copy Share Image
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… — Shakira Copy Share Image
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… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
