Norman Maclean Quotes

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

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

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.

We can only learn to love by loving.

I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

It's hard to talk about love because most of the time, we have no idea what we're talking about.

Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.

Love is just a word that we've chosen to use to describe something that we can't fully explain. I mean, it's like, as a culture, we've just all agreed on using the term, but I think people get so caught up in the word that they don't allow themselves the privilege to live out what it actually might be.

Look your significant other in the eyes, make that connection.

I do want love. Genuine love.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

You have to give love to get love.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.