Emma Goldman Quotes

If there's one thing I learned about being with someone, it's you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don't want to do that.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

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

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway.

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.

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

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.

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

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

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

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

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.