Affection is a "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning: emotion (popularly: love, devotion etc); disease; influence; state of being (philosophy); and state of mind (psychology).
"Affection" is popularly used to denote a feeling or type of love, amounting to more than goodwill or friendship. Writers on ethics ge...
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Affection
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- The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection -- Are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
- One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
- A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
- A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
- Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
- If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.
- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. -- Colossians 3:2
- 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.
- It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
- I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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