#affections

As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that we are psycho. But what if that's not true? Have you ever stopped to think that? What if it's like there's a beautiful little bird in our hearts and we're too afraid to let anyone see it in there? What's wrong with letting anyone know that there's a bird in your chest? Maybe there are lots of wrong ones, but maybe there's one that's just for you— the one who won't laugh or run away when he sees that little bird. After all, it’s just a pretty bird! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#birds #inspirational-quotes #inspirational-writing-for-women #little-birds #love

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#best #divest #many #men #never

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. ↗

— George Gillespie

#error #ignorance #lives #man #man lives

Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#worship #religion

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#brother #father #friend #heart #heaven

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

— Dusty Springfield

#easily #i #i can #swayed #unfaithful

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ↗

— George Eliot

#difference #great #great strain #jokes #strain

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#animal #cat #difficult #does #friendship