Aunjanue Ellis Quotes

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

There is nothing you can control about love.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.

Intimacy is healing.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.