Affection is a "disposition or rare state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning: emotion (popularly: love, devotion etc.); disease; influence; state of being (philosophy); and state of mind (psychology). "Affection" is popularly used to denote a feeling or type of love, amounting to more than goodwill or friendship. Writers on ethics generally use the word to refer to distinct states of feeling, both lasting and spasmodic. Some contrast it with passion as being free from the distinctively sensual element.
I would regard meanings given by others so far as refreshing boon, I would still be enamored of rose or any heartless flower's smell if tender tides of your affection had not suffused the pollens of my heart with loving aroma.
Wonder Woman: The only way you can rule anybody Steve, is the way we women do it -- by inspiring affection!
"The Mysterious Prisoners of Anglona",Sensation Comics #62, written byWilliam Moulton Marston, February, 1947.
There is no resource so firm for the Government of the United States as the affections of the people, guided by an enlightened policy; and to this primary good nothing can conduce more than a faithful representation of public proceedings, diffused without restraint throughout the United States.
George Washington,Fifth Annual Address (1793) inMessages and Papers of the Presidents (1896), page 142.
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted. If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
