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Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Love is exaggerated affection; affection is unexaggerated love! Always be sober in everything!

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

Love is the piety of the affections.

Love requited is a short circuit.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

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

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.

No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

Nothing really affected me until Elvis.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.