Fondness Quotes

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

“If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.”

“On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.”

“When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...”

“When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.”

“Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.”

“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.”

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

“No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.”