Affinity Quote by William James

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

— William James

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

— Alan Jay Lerner

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

— Samuel Johnson

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or…

— Samuel Johnson

Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

— John Dryden

There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys.

— Ovid

“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart,…

— Brené Brown

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of…

— James Russell Lowell

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

— Benjamin Franklin

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately…

— Philip Yancey

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron