Leonard Slatkin Quotes

You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.

I think if somebody doesn't have the time to work on a relationship, then they shouldn't get into 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.

You don't stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that's willful and intentional and something that both people really want.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

I think there is a price to being alone, and there is a price to being in a relationship. It all depends on which price you want to pay - but none of them are free.

I've always got time for a relationship.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

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'.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.