#affect

If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#kissing #love

Grab life by the tail, and then pet it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#animal #funny #humor #life #love

It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#love #necessity #love

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#doctrine #religion #theology #business

But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#love #religion #love

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#christ #christian #god #inspirational #jesus

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. ↗

— Jane Austen

#romance #nothing

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#behavior #change #conversation #day #fear

Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust? ↗

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#affection #behavior #conduct #feelings #love