John Wooden Quotes

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.

Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

The way I see it, love is an amusement park, and food its souvenir.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Being in love is the best thing in my life.

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

Being in love is the best feeling on the planet. I really believe that love makes the world go round.

Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

To me, love is everything. I can't think of living without it happily. Only when it's there in my life do things happen smoothly for me.

Love is a good thing.

Love is the absolute basis of my career.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

Not to love is to cease to live.