 Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.
– David Hume (1711-1776) |
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Gautama Buddha – Deserve your love and affection
 You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
– Gautama Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) |
Miguel de Cervantes – All kinds of beauty do not inspire love
 All kinds of beauty do not inspire love: there is a kind of it which pleases only the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
– Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) |
Enid Bagnold – Love and affection
| It’s not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of one self) – to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it’s the affection I find richer. It’s that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
– Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) |
Joseph Addison – Father and daughter affection
 Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as that of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
– Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
