Jason Mraz Quotes

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

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

I want someone who is my partner in life. Who supports me, and I support her. I can share all my experiences in life with her, and she can share hers back with me. Not only do we love each other, but we accept, embrace, nurture, and care for each other.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

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

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

We can only learn to love by loving.

We never know about anybody else's relationship and how they work - particularly the ones that work for a really, really long time. I was going to say only the people in it, but often, not even they understand how it works.

A relationship takes two people to make or break it.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love.

The meaning of love is obviously huge - but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be nice to you back. Love is a selfless place to be. There is no safer place to be than under the canopy of love.

You have to give love to get love.

I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.