Love & Affection

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
--Sir John Lubbock

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
--Logan P. Smith

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, all duties even.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
--Basil Rathbone

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
--Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
--Nan Fairbrother

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
--Christian Nevell Bovee

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
--Leigh Hunt

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes --seize it, don't miss it.

--Max Lucado

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat,
they, too, would purr.
--Martin Delany

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness
there is in our lives.
--C.S. Lewis

Sometimes we let affection, go unspoken,
Sometimes we let our love go unexpressed,
Sometimes we can't find words to tell our feelings,
Especially towards those we love the best.
--Author Unknown

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me
-- W. H. Auden

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.
--Jane Austen

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
--J.E Buckrose