Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

I think love isn't doomed, of course, but in real life, love doesn't always work out.

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

I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

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

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I just want to love and be loved.

There is nothing you can control about love.

I think that you first have to understand that our sexuality is a gift that God has given us. Then you grow in that respect and love with your spouse or girlfriend to-be-wife. You respect her! Then you realize you're loving their heart, their soul and you grow together.

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

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

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.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

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.

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

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

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.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

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.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.