#affection

You ask me why I don’t love you, but surely you must believe I am very fond of you and if to desire to possess a person wholly, to admire and honour that person deeply, and to seek to secure that person’s happiness in every way is to “love” then perhaps my affection for you is a kind of love. I will tell you this that your soul seems to me to be the most beautiful and simple soul in the world and it may be because I am so conscious of this when I look at you that my love or affection for you loses much of its violence. ↗

— James Joyce

#desire #love #soul #uncertainty #beauty

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love. ↗

— George Best

#buy #certainly #definitely #i #love

My affection for Taiwan... is witnessed by everyone. My wife is Taiwanese and I am a son-in-law of Taiwan. I am half Taiwanese. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#am #everyone #half #i #i am

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#bodies #flux #our #perpetual #well

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#affection #auditorium #because #before #bigger

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. ↗

— Jane Austen

#banter #courtship #poetry #food

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#friendship #love #truth #friendship

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent friend. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#companionship #discovery #dog #friend #friendship

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#love-of-god #love