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“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.”

“absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.”

Affection Seeds Absence Fancy Decay Flowering True Affection

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

Love Needs Giving Passion Born Emotion Terrible Affection Enormous Life And Love I Love Life Best Ever Love Sad Life Mature Love Sad Feeling Needed Love True Affection

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

Love Emotion Our Lives Forgiveness Responsible Affection Nine Valentine's Day Famous Love Love And Affection Durability Nine Lives True Affection Deep Affection

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”

Love Self Interest Enemy Affection Self Interest Selfish Interest True Affection

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”

Ifs Given Solitude Affection Opposition Reverse Interiors Sigh Single Infallible True Affection

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”

And Love Affection Purity Bigotry True Affection

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.”

Ifs World Children Would Be Beautiful Mother Father Heaven Lord Eternal Affection Jewels Admonition True Affection

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.”

“There are wonders in true affection. It is a body of enigmas, mysteries, and riddles, wherein two so become one, as they both become two.”

Love Two Body Mystery Affection Riddle Enigma True Affection

Author:Thomas Browne

“Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.”

Hands Love Is Fit Band Universal Fingers Affection Gloves Universal Love True Affection

Author:Jean Paul

“There is no power greater than true affection.”

Greater Affection True Affection

Author:Seneca the Younger