{"quotes":[{"text":"Never blame circumstances for your condition, you yourself are responsible for what you go through. If someone's treating you bad, its your fault not theirs. If you are not satisfied with your life, its time you take a step and change it. Nobody will stand for you, nobody will help you, its you who has to ultimately do something for yourself. Doesn't matters if you're hurting yourself for a small time, imagine when things will change and your life will change, how happy you'll be... Let that imagination drive you and help you in your betterment. God is watching everything, always think that, as long as, there's someone in the sky to watch over me, nobody on earth can hurt me...","author":"Mehek Bassi","tags":["adore","affection","care","fear","god","inspirational","inspire","love","mehek-bassi","need","optimistic","treat"],"id":5548,"author_id":"Mehek+Bassi"},{"text":"I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who needs your love, has been waiting silently, patiently for it all his life, is flawed and downright ugly at times and yet would have just eaten up any tiny bit of affection you had been willing to give, had you ever stopped your own happy life to notice. And then imagine that this hypothetical person is real, because he probably is.... Wish I’d met you. Wish I wasn’t your hypothetical. But you’re reading this, which means a few minutes ago, I went into that bathroom and pulled the trigger. You probably heard it. Sorry. You’re welcome. Thank you. And please. Please, please, please, please, please, please, please.","author":"Charles Yu","tags":["affection","loneliness","love","relationships","suicide"],"id":7030,"author_id":"Charles+Yu"},{"text":"But it is doubtless true, and evident from [the] Scriptures, that the essence of all true religion lies in holy love; and that in this divine affection, and an habitual disposition to it, and that light which is the foundation of it, and those things which are the fruits of it, consists the whole of religion.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["affection","love","religion"],"id":7444,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"},{"text":"Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["affection","childhood","humanity","love","society","solidarity","upbringing"],"id":8321,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"My relationship with him was defined by these complex emotions, this mixture of gratitude and resentment.","author":"Otsuichi","tags":["affection","complex","complicated","complicated-relationship","complicated-relationships","emotions","gratitude","humanity","relationships","resentment","robots"],"id":9264,"author_id":"Otsuichi"},{"text":"(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language is singularly agreeable to me, and the information she communicates is often just what I wished to gain.”“Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?”“Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides me. There is no merit in such goodness.”“A great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and sothey would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”“You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.”“But I feel this, Helen; I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.”“Heathens and savage tribes hold that doctrine, but Christians and civilised nations disown it.” “How? I don’t understand.”“It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”“What then?”“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example.”“What does He say?”“Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["affection","goodness","respecting-others"],"id":10497,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Will you, then, never grow weary of being unjust?","author":"Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos","tags":["actions","affection","behavior","conduct","feelings","love","madame-de-tourvel","vicomte-de-valmont"],"id":10890,"author_id":"Pierre-Ambroise+Choderlos+de+Laclos"},{"text":"I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.","author":"Sonya Hartnett","tags":["affection","blight","desire","destined","disappointment","heartbreak","history","humankind","pain","stupid"],"id":11372,"author_id":"Sonya+Hartnett"},{"text":"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.","author":"Havelock Ellis","tags":["exercise","early","affection "],"id":13520,"author_id":"Havelock+Ellis"},{"text":"Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","affection","allowance","behavioral-change","behaviors","consideration","consideration-of-others","construct","construction","decision","decisions-inspirational","differences","dimensions","dimensions-of-consciousness","experience","importance","individual-rights","intellectual","interesting-perspection-of-life","interesting","life-philosophy","life","long-term-relationships","love","relationship","short-inspirational","short-term","temper","temperament"],"id":13553,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":226,"pages":23,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}