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

Happiness, Whatever, Lives

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Love, Yourself, Someone

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

Give, Born, Terrible

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Love, Yourself, Universe

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Live, Human

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran

Art, Knowledge, Ignorance

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

Love, Home, Woman

Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
Tupac Shakur

Life, Giving, Deal

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Forward, Step

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw

Human, Natural, Animal

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

Him, Others, Deception

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

Love, Power, Giving

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love, True, Care

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Abraham Maslow

Good, Feelings, Give

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Judge, Hatred

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
Christopher Hitchens

God, Food, Water

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
Deepak Chopra

Leadership, Attention, Intuition

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Give, Friends, Expressing

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

Long, Heaven, Ignorant

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

Woman, Show, She

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

Cannot, Equal, Loving

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

Dead, Dying, Ourselves

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
St. Jerome

Love, Price, Purchased

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 Nestell Bovee

Passion, Kiss, Sweetness

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

Love, Hard, Down

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

Friends, Cannot, Else

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great, Enjoy, Sweet

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

Heart, Nothing, Lost

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