#affection

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#anything #call #external #external things #good

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#anybody #been #down #feel #hard

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other. ↗

— Nick Clooney

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But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched. ↗

— Perry Como

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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often. ↗

— Larry David

#around #day #every #every day #get

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#anything #cannot #define #else #final

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#desperately #handing #i #me #out

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Audrey Hepburn

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