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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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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end." »H.L. Mencken
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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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"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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"The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding." »Oscar Wilde
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"mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise." »William Blake
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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual." »Octavio Paz
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal." »Louis K. Anspacher
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"The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone." »Pope John XXIII
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"It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction." »Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated." »B. C. Forbes
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"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." »Albert Einstein
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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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"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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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination." »John Keats
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"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." »Buddha
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"If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace." »Fridjof Nansen
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"Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail." »William Lloyd
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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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"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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"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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