Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. - Paulo Coelho The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain waysand you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. - Paulo Coelho Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helpe...

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me. - Tony Curtis Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster. - Agnes Smedley

you can't punish someone for a lack of affection, can you? You can't force a child to love you just because he's your child. - Paul Auster When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. 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. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love. - Jiddu Krishnamurti