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"affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence." »Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government"
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"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted,
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"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." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"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
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"Talk not of wasted affection affection never was wasted." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other." »Charles Dickens
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"Every gift, though small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.*" »Philemon
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"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." »Buddha
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination." »John Keats
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"Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection." »J. B. Yeats
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd
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"affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." »C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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"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
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"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." »Nan Fairbrother
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"Parents? affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial." »Burmese Proverb
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"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art." »Kahlil Gibran
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"No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them." »Aristotle
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"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. ... With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved." »Edward R. Murrow
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"I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives." »John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820
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"In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry." »Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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"Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light." »Felicia Hermans
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"When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection." »Bertrand Russell
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"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection." »Bertrand Russell
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"We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music." »Lewis Thomas
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