Affection

Affection & Love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. The Wizard to the Tin Man

A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. Erwin W. Lutzer

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people. Sigmund Freud

Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality. Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson (Growing Up Again)

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon

Falling in love ... I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful. Manuel (age 8 )

Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. John (age 9)

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening

Fill every thought with determination, Every step with courage and every word with love. unknown

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them C. S. Lewis

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. Brian Tracy

He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine of Hippo

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. Forrest Tucker

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand Woody Paige

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. Og Mandino

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. Glenn (age 7)

If I limit the love I give to just one or two, it will eventually go stale. If I learn to create love inside my heart and silently give it to everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Woody Paige

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. Nikka, age 6

If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. Ben Franklin

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Artist

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide

It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. Eric Hoffer

It's been lovely but I have to scream now Woody Paige

Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity - all of God's children. Alvin Alexsi Currier

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long. Kenneth Boulding

Let us plant dates--even though we who plant them will never eat them....We must live by the love of what we will never see. Ruben Alves (Theologian)

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. unknown

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelist and dramatist

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. William Barclay

Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too. Dr. Karl Menninger

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

Love is a fruit. A fruit of whom? Of your hard work? Of your deep faith? Of your rigorous resolve? No. Love is a fruit of the Spirit of God. "The Spirit produces the fruit" (Gal. 5:22, NCV). Max Lucado (A Love Worth Giving)

Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... Doug Firebaugh

Love is by far the most important thing of all. Brian Tracy

Love is like the measles: We all have to go through it.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. C. S. Lewis

Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. unknown

Love is what is left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. Katherine Anne Porter

Love of our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone, to do what good we can when we can, and to bear, excuse and hide others' faults. St. John Vianney

Love should be a verb, not a noun. Denis Waitley

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent

Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal

Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me. Dave (age 8)

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

Love's a choice. Make wise decisions. Shellie R. Warren

More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born.

My liberty as a Christian should always be supremely shackled by the love I am commanded to have towards another. Avery D. Miller

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac

O tell her, brief is life but love is long. Lord Alfred Tennyson

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Judith Viorst

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful a thought that is love. Mary Manin Morrissey

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) Historian

The age of your heart is the age of what you love. Marcel Prévost (1862-1941); French writer

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? Margaret Gatty

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men. A. W. Tozer

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. --James Michener

The noble love of Jesus impels a man to do great things, and stirs him up to be always longing for what is more perfect. Thomas à Kempis

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love. Brian Tracy

The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love. Ed Habib

The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches. Dwight L. Moody

There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey

There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. Albert Camus

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot. Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. Don't wait for tomorrow. Make memories today. Life is for Living. unknown

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott, M.D.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose the next best. William M. Thackeray

To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings. Portuguese Proverb

To love is to be vulnerable C.S. Lewis

To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. J.E. Buchrose

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. William Temple

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. Leanna L. Bartram

Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love! Pete Welsh

We all need love, but we need it most when we deserve it least--when we have sinned against someone, when we have made poor choices, when we have failed. In these situations, ordinary love must become extra-ordinary love. Barbara Rosberg

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. Mother Teresa

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Theresa

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. Brooks Atkinson

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. M. Acklam

We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust. Madame de Choiseul

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. Ed Howe

We need someone to believe in us -- if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me. Elbert Hubbard

We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Charles Reade

When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever, Anonymous

When you care about other people, you are more likely to know how to really love, and how to be loved back. Laura Shipler Chico (Social worker)

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy, Martha Beck (Expecting Adam)

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. Aristotle

Without real love there is no music, No songs, no stories worth singing about. Kenneth Edmonds

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. Melanie Clark

You must feel love within, before you can share it. Denis Waitley