Buddha

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Leader

Jim Carrey

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Canadian Comedian

Victor Hugo

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.

French Author

George Eliot

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

British Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

American Poet

Eartha Kitt

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

American Actress

W. H. Auden

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

English Poet

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

American Writer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

American President

Aristotle

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Greek Philosopher

Expresses positive feelings towards people or pets, not inanimate objects.

Emotional Connection

'Affection' suggests a stronger, more enduring feeling than just 'liking' someone briefly.

More than Like

Can describe platonic relationships; not necessarily romantic.

Non-romantic

In medical contexts, 'affection' refers to illness, not emotions.

Medical Usage

When used for illnesses, it's a formal term that sounds dated or technical in modern speech.

Formal Term

This meaning of 'affection' is not widely used; modern terminology is preferred such as 'condition' or 'disorder'.

Not Common

It can mean the effect something has on another thing, but it's often confused with 'effect'.

Influence Effect

People often say 'affection' when they mean 'effect'. Remember that 'affect' is the verb, and 'effect' is the noun.

Misused Term

 happy there's a good reason that dogs are wired to get worried when they aren't getting all the attention one possibility is that jealousy evolved in species that have multiple young competing for parental resources such as food care and affection being a little whiny can seriously improve your odds

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 And your love for your partner may be in its own dynamic relationship, healthy or totally weird, with the love of your parents and siblings. Love is also a set of behaviors we associate with the Holding hands, kissing, hugging, public displays of affection, dating, marriage,

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 There's an intensity of affection and emotion, a rush. It feels really good. You feel so lucky, like you've hit the jackpot. But in unhealthy love, these feelings shift over time from exciting to overwhelming and maybe a little bit suffocating. You feel it in your gut.

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 and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship, but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters. It turns out that living in the midst of conflict is really bad for our health. High-conflict marriages, for example, without much affection,

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 are basic parts that we take from an everyday we project to the people in front of us and then they project back so you don't get back the feedback that you only would expect it could be sadness it could be anger it could be love it could be affection we've been

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 but, you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life. Another form of life. But they're rather curious. And I say this out of affection for there's something curious about professors.

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 public displays of affection were looked down on. He told me that he was wrestling and struggling with his ego, and how much he loved his girlfriend and how thankful he was for her patience. And then a few weeks later, he messaged me again.

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 be to develop a healthy detachment I had to develop coping mechanisms when I was a child the back and forth and the push and pull of affection was emotional whiplash you're wonderful you're

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 of her own she's not alone for long her brothers are still ready to show affection it's a peaceful interlude but an increasingly rare one

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 of her own she's not alone for long her brothers are still ready to show affection

Affection

A feeling of liking and caring for someone.

Often appears as...

Something that makes you physically or mentally unwell.

Often appears as...

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The act of affecting or influencing something.

Often appears as...

Emotional Connection

More than Like

Non-romantic

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