I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

Love alone could waken love.

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

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.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Love is energy of life.

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.