John Lennon Quotes

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

You want to attach emotionally.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

At the heart of all things is love.

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or before I leave for work. And I think that's the most important thing you can do as a father is to make sure that your children know they're loved.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

Love is for children and dimwads.

When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

I don't use the phrase 'I love you' very often, but I say it every time I talk to my children.

Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.

When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

When you have children love is always there in the best form.