Affectionate Relationships Quotes

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.

We receive love — from our children as well as others — not in proportion to our demands or sacrifices or needs, but roughly in proportion to our own capacity to love.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

Friendship is a sacred possession. As air, water and sunshine to flowers, trees and verdure, so smiles, sympathy and love of friends to the daily life of man. To live, laugh, love one's friends, and be loved by them is to bask in the sunshine of life.

I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

Only the soul that loves is happy

When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

Children require affection. That's very important.

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

I can't think of anything I'd rather have more than somebody lovin' me.

It's nice to feel loved instead of feeling hated.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

My parents did not encourage romances.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Love had forged ahead so swiftly that in no time it had displaced agriculture as the leading industry of the period. To anyone who has tried both, this wont come as much of a surprise.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

Anger cannot rest in the bosom where love reigns.

...Something about, 'I love my dad, I love my dad, makes me feel better when I'm sad ... I love you to the moon and back.