Alexandra Fuller Quotes

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Just because you have chemistry with someone doesn't mean you're naturally going to be the best for each other. You have make choices and prioritize.

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.'

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

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

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.

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 the outreach of self toward completion.

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

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

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

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.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious about love. Ambitious in the sense that I really hope to find true love.

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

Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.