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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other." »Charles Dickens
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises." »Henry Clay
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"The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation." »Pope John Paul II
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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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"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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"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship." »Aristotle
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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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"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection." »Herbert Hensley Henson
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"We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied." »Sir Walter Raleigh
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"To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences." »Albert Einstein
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