Affection

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."

"A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives."

"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections."

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."