“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”
Quotes about love
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“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.”
“I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.”
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
“Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.”
“It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.”
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
“It is most unwise for people in love to marry.”
“The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“Only do what your heart tells you.”
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love this is the eternal rule.”
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.”
“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”