affectation/affection...

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." - Henry Ward Beecher


I haven't been able to get this phrase out of my head. It's the truest things I've encountered in the last week. And I love truth in all forms. I want to have this kind of heart, this kind of affect.

I'm not sure anyone has ever been affective (notice I didn't say effective) until they have first become attractive. Too many hearts want the former without laying the foundation of the latter.

I want to carry up people's hearts, not with an affectation, but with genuine affection.