As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen KellerI really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.
Jim CarreyDuring my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
John MuirThe love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel JohnsonI always wanted to be loved.
Dolly PartonEver since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
Muhammad AliShe would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.
Angelina JolieI always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.
Bruno MarsLove always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.
Taylor SwiftTricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.
Benjamin FranklinNever go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Ernest HemingwayLet’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.
Barack ObamaI meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. SeussSomething unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard ShawFor small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl SaganGive a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John RuskinYou want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.
Jerry SeinfeldOne can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
George OrwellHate has no place in the house of God.
Desmond TutuI wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad AliThere was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.
Kanye WestMine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘
Dolly PartonMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleLove is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.
Ray BradburyWhen we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNo evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George EliotWherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
HippocratesThere’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
Clint EastwoodSeek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel KantTell the truth, but tell it slant.
Emily DickinsonHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise PascalOur life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother TeresaExaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea BallouAnywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Muhammad AliYou can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert EinsteinWhen you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert CamusHome is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert FrostI don’t mind telling a dark side.
Clint EastwoodThe man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas CarlyleEver has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil GibranA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.
Pope FrancisLove is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William ShakespeareOne isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya AngelouPeople have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.
Richard M. NixonLove sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William ShakespeareLove other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi MinhKisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CummingsMuch that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand RussellLove is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
Ariana GrandeIf I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
Dwayne JohnsonIf you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Jesus ChristI’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Taylor SwiftYou don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret ThatcherI should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Albert CamusMy parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
Taylor SwiftI like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
Taylor SwiftLove many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent Van GoghUnless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsHatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde