Affection

Affection & Love

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. The Wizard to the Tin Man

A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror. Ken Keyes Jr.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it. Erwin W. Lutzer

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people. Sigmund Freud

Every experience of accepting love strengthens the muscles of the personality. Jean Illsley Clarke & Connie Dawson (Growing Up Again)

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. Charles Spurgeon

Falling in love ... I think you're supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn't supposed to be so painful. Manuel (age 8 )

Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life. John (age 9)

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening

Fill every thought with determination, Every step with courage and every word with love. unknown

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them C. S. Lewis

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. Brian Tracy

He loves each one of us, as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine of Hippo

He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. Forrest Tucker

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. Mother Teresa

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand Woody Paige

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force....My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day. Og Mandino

If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long. Glenn (age 7)

If I limit the love I give to just one or two, it will eventually go stale. If I learn to create love inside my heart and silently give it to everyone I meet, love will grace every corner of my life. unknown

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Woody Paige

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Mother Teresa

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. Michel de Montaigne

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate. Nikka, age 6

If you would be loved, love, and be lovable. Ben Franklin

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Artist

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. Andre Gide

It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. Eric Hoffer

It's been lovely but I have to scream now Woody Paige

Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity - all of God's children. Alvin Alexsi Currier

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long. Kenneth Boulding

Let us plant dates--even though we who plant them will never eat them....We must live by the love of what we will never see. Ruben Alves (Theologian)

Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile. unknown

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Novelist and dramatist

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. William Barclay

Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it, too. Dr. Karl Menninger

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James Baldwin

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

Love is a fruit. A fruit of whom? Of your hard work? Of your deep faith? Of your rigorous resolve? No. Love is a fruit of the Spirit of God. "The Spirit produces the fruit" (Gal. 5:22, NCV). Max Lucado (A Love Worth Giving)

Love is an attachment to something or someone that eventually welds itself to the heart... Doug Firebaugh

Love is by far the most important thing of all. Brian Tracy

Love is like the measles: We all have to go through it.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. Judith Viorst

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

Love is that condition in which The happiness of another person Is essential to your own. unknown

Love is what is left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. Sean Connery

Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. Katherine Anne Porter

Love of our neighbor consists of three things: to desire the greater good of everyone, to do what good we can when we can, and to bear, excuse and hide others' faults. St. John Vianney

Love should be a verb, not a noun. Denis Waitley

Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside. Margaret Walker

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Corita Kent

Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal

Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me. Dave (age 8)

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball

Love's a choice. Make wise decisions. Shellie R. Warren

More light than we can learn, more wealth than we can treasure, more love than we can earn, more peace than we can measure, because one Child is born.

My liberty as a Christian should always be supremely shackled by the love I am commanded to have towards another. Avery D. Miller

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. Francois Muriac

O tell her, brief is life but love is long. Lord Alfred Tennyson

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Judith Viorst

One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. Henry Ward Beecher

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful a thought that is love. Mary Manin Morrissey

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose. Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) Historian

The age of your heart is the age of what you love. Marcel Prévost (1862-1941); French writer

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. Albert Ellis

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. G.K. Chesterton

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? Margaret Gatty

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. Blaise Pascal

The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men. A. W. Tozer

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. --James Michener

The noble love of Jesus impels a man to do great things, and stirs him up to be always longing for what is more perfect. Thomas à Kempis

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love. Brian Tracy

The soul needs friendship, the heart needs love. Ed Habib

The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and this is about the last thing we have in many of our churches. Dwight L. Moody

There is nothing we can do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make God love us less. Philip Yancey

There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. Albert Camus

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. A.W. Pinero

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

To live a little, you've got to love a whole lot. Love turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Life is a gift we're given each and every day. Dream about tomorrow, but live for today. Don't wait for tomorrow. Make memories today. Life is for Living. unknown

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott, M.D.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose the next best. William M. Thackeray

To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings. Portuguese Proverb

To love is to be vulnerable C.S. Lewis

To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life. J.E. Buchrose

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. William Temple

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore

True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. Leanna L. Bartram

Truth is not a virtue unless it is given with love! Pete Welsh

We all need love, but we need it most when we deserve it least--when we have sinned against someone, when we have made poor choices, when we have failed. In these situations, ordinary love must become extra-ordinary love. Barbara Rosberg

We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world. Mother Teresa

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. Mother Theresa

We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens. Brooks Atkinson

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. M. Acklam

We grow old as soon as we cease to love and trust. Madame de Choiseul

We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. Ed Howe

We need someone to believe in us -- if we do well, we want our work commended, our faith corroborated. The individual who thinks well of you, who keeps his mind on your good qualities, and does not look for your flaws, is your friend. Who is my brother? I'll tell you: he is the one who recognizes the good in me. Elbert Hubbard

We spend too much time looking for the right person to love or finding fault with those we already love, when instead we should be perfecting the love we give.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. Ellen Burstyn

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. Charles Reade

When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever, Anonymous

When you care about other people, you are more likely to know how to really love, and how to be loved back. Laura Shipler Chico (Social worker)

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy, Martha Beck (Expecting Adam)

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. Aristotle

Without real love there is no music, No songs, no stories worth singing about. Kenneth Edmonds

You can't make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to the person to realize your worth.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories. Melanie Clark

You must feel love within, before you can share it. Denis Waitley

Adversity

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. William Arthur Ward (Educator)

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. Lou Holtz

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. Author unknown

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.

The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the Devil. C. S. Lewis

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash (Founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics)

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Adolescence

Adolescence

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. Arthur Koestler

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. M. Cartmill

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was shut up. Joe Namath

Why can't life's problems hit us when we're seventeen and know everything? A.C. Jolly

Action

Action

...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage…The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Sydney Smith

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day, he can sleep at night and do it again the next day. Albert Schweitzer

A ship in a safe harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for. William Shedd

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation. Henri Bergson

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller

And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Stephen Harvey

Chance favors those in motion. James H. Austin

Christian action should be defined as an action of God mediated through a person. ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM (1914– )

Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. Brian Tracy (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 153)

Don't wait for mentors to seek you out. Don't ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking questions. Denis Waitley

Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now. Mark Victor Hansen

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier

Get Real is about you and the things you do and the things you think about. Jeffrey Gitomer

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. Brendan Francis

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. Coretta Scott King

It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, "What are we busy about"? Henry David Thoreau

It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it. Bob Proctor

It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. Bob Proctor

Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. Don Sutton

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference. Mark Victor Hansen

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree Thomas Fuller

People who want to retire so they can sit under a coconut tree watching the grass grow baffle me. We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. John Maxwell

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing. Denis Waitley

Stop stewing and start doing! Denis Waitley

Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands. Zig Ziglar

Take action every day - some small dose at a time. Jeffrey Gitomer

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. Richard Cushing

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Jim Rohn

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done. David Lloyd George

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart

The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action. William Burnham

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything. Denis Waitley

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. Norman Schwarzkopf

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner. Denis Waitley

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad. Hazrat Inayat Khan

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. Rene Descartes

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. John Ruskin

When the heart is right, the feet are swift. THOMAS JEFFERSON (1743–1826)

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values. Jim Rohn

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless. Caroline Myss

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. Wayne Gretsky

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor. Jim Rohn

Achievement

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryant

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Thomas N. Carruther

If the heart can conceive it, and the mind can believe it, God can achieve it. Charles Pollard

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward

It is a glorious achievement to master one's own temper. Anonymous

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. Nelson Mandela

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race. Ernest L. Woodward

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist. J. Harold Wilkins

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer

There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit. Laing Burns, Jr.

To survive you have to go through hard moments in life but it doesn't matter - if you achieve your goals by being who you are and not forgetting where you came from.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill

Always aim for achievement and forget about success. Helen Hayes (1900-1993) Actor

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. Ronnie Lott

Accomplishment

Accomplishment

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Phillips Brooks

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) Publisher

Do not let time pass without accomplishing something. Otherwise you will regret it when your hair turns gray. Yue Fei (1103-1141) Army general

Ministry that costs nothing, accomplishes nothing. JOHN HENRY JOWETT (1864–1923)

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471)

Being able to do something well is one of life’s great joys. Frank Tyger

Efficiency is enhanced not by what we accomplish but more often by what we relinquish. Charles R. Swindoll (1934– )

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. Charles R. Swindoll (1934– )

Acceptance

With this post I'm going to start posting clusters of quotes on topics in alphabetical order. It will make it easier to search for certain topics hopefully.

"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season." Brendan Francis

"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him." Clark Moustakas

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." George Orwell

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." Albert Einstein

"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly." Maureen Dowd

"Remember, what we allow we encourage." Michael Josephson

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. " Russell Lynes

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." Simone De Beauvoir

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. Henry Miller

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell

I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx

Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it. T.S. Eliot

We must let go of the life we planned in order to accept the life that is waiting for us.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. Arland Gilbert

You can't please everybody if you are going to make a difference in this world.