“It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying”
Marcel Proust
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”
Richard Bach
“He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.”
Kahlil Gibran
“When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.”
Jane Austen
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”
Lee Iacocca
