“My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.” SpiritualFatherParentCompassionPreparedAffectionSeedsSoilDedicationSelflessGuruSelfless Love Author:Radhanath Swami
“God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children” GivingHeartChildrenLittlesSoulEarthFacesPurposeFatherRaceHigherAimRoundsAffectionMy SoulEnterpriseFacultyBlessExertionUnselfishGreat FatherTender HeartsHappy Smile Author:Mary Howitt
“But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.” IfsGivingShouldBookLawFatherLostPayWifeHusbandFruitAffectionJewPriestsSpontaneousSweetnessObligedTokensTitheLiberalityLaw Books Author:Charles Spurgeon
“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.” ThinkingI CanSometimesRememberFatherGivenFriendshipAffectionSmellGenerousShirtsAwkwardHugSpicesTobaccoEngulfingOld Spice Book:Move On Source: Move On
“Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.” ChildrenMotherFatherResponsibilityExpressionOur ChildrenAffectionYour ChildrenLove And AffectionExpressions Of Love Author:Howard W. Hunter
“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.” ChildrenLittlesImportantEnoughPlayMotherNextFatherParentMoralRolesSuccessfulToo MuchGenerationsEconomicCenturyEmotionalKeysTrainingAffectionSensitivityNext GenerationUpbringingChild Rearing Author:Sandra Scarr