Affection Never Was Wasted

Reflections:
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." Buddha

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr." Martin Delany

"The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior." Abraham Maslow

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." C.S. Lewis

"The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters." Thomas Jefferson

"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do." Nan Fairbrother

"One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself." Sigmund Freud