(noun) The act of affecting or acting upon.
"We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life."
"People's affection hurts me but it's a beautiful pain."
"Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections."
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
"If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger."
"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."