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Love And Affection Quotes About Family

Family is where life begins & love never ends.
Unknown

The most important thing in the world is family and love.
John Wooden

Family is the heart of a home.
Unknown

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
Charles Kuralt

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
Michael J. Fox

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
George Santayana

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.
Eva Burrows

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach

The love in our family flows strong and deep, leaving us memories to treasure and keep.
Unknown

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Love And Affection Quotes About Romance

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks

The very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.
Jane Austen

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens

I am yours, don't give myself back to me.
Rumi

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.
Pablo Neruda

Love And Affection Quotes About Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever.
Nicholas Sparks

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer

A successful marriage isn't the union of two perfect people. It's that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.
Darlene Schacht

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C. Dodds

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Parenting

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
O. A. Battista

The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.
Robert Brault

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
George Herbert Walker Bush

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.
James E. Faust

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar Wilde

The most precious jewels you'll ever have around your neck are the arms of your children.
Unknown

The love between a parent and child is forever.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the oil of all relationships.
Anonymous

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
Josiah Royce

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it.
Doe Zantamata

Love And Affection Quotes About Gratitude

Gratitude is the key to unlocking the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
Jean Baptiste Massieu

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation.
Sonia Lyubomirsky

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
Rumi

Gratitude is the foundation of a happy life.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Trust

Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
William P. Young

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey

Love cannot live where there is no trust.
Edith Hamilton

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen R. Covey

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway

Trust is the key to a happy and fulfilling relationship.
Unknown

Trust is the foundation of love, respect, and honor.
Unknown

Trust is the most important thing in any relationship. It is the foundation upon which all relationships are built.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Loyalty

Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a lifetime.
Mario Puzo

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow T. Wilson

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
Ada Velez-Boardley

Loyalty is the foundation of a relationship. Without it, there is nothing.
Unknown

Loyalty is the strongest bond between two people, and it is the foundation of any successful relationship.
Unknown

Loyalty is the key to a healthy and happy relationship.
Unknown

Loyalty is the most important quality in any relationship. It is the foundation of trust and respect.
Unknown

Loyalty is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown

Loyalty is the foundation of a strong and lasting relationship.
Unknown

Loyalty is the ultimate test of a relationship. It is what keeps two people together through thick and thin.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Support

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
David Wilkerson

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
Ken Keyes Jr.

Love is not just about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship.
Anon

Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you've been together, it's all about how much you love each other every day.
Anon

Love is not about what we have, but about what we are willing to give.
Anon

Love is not about possession, it's all about appreciation.
Anon

Love And Affection Quotes About Encouragement

Encouragement is the fuel on which love runs.
Unknown

Love is not just about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship. It's not about how much love you have in the beginning but how much love you build till the end.
Unknown

Love is not just a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every day.
Unknown

Love is not about finding someone to live with. It's about finding someone you can't live without.
Unknown

Love is not about how much you say 'I love you', but how much you prove that it's true.
Unknown

Love is not about what we have, but about what we give.
Unknown

Love is not about how much you have, but how much you are willing to give.
Unknown

Love is not about how much you receive, but how much you give.
Unknown

Love And Affection Quotes About Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'
C.S. Lewis

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love And Affection Quotes About Kindness

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
Amelia Earhart

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
Author Unknown

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Author Unknown

The greatest gift you can give someone is your kindness and attention.
Debasish Mridha

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love And Affection Quotes About Compassion

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity.
Arthur Jersild

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals.
Pema Chödrön

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Compassion is the key to happiness.
Dalai Lama

Compassion is the foundation of all forms of spiritual practice.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Compassion is the basis of morality.
Arnold Schopenhauer

Love And Affection Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is the starting point for love.
Anonymous

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the key to great stories.
Steven Spielberg

Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.
Gloria Steinem

Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Anonymous

Empathy is the pathway to kindness.
Anonymous

Empathy is the first step in healing the world.
Anonymous

Love And Affection Quotes About Unity

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J.K. Rowling

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Kofi Annan

The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people.
Unknown

We are all in this together and we are going to get through it together.
Kamala Harris

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll

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