James Baldwin Quotes

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Often we think love is a feeling: that you spontaneously experience it.

Love is not just about love for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, or wife. Love, for me, is the love for my work, family, and even friends. The emotion is very strong. It comes with a lot of responsibilities.

'Faces of Love' is asking about what the fundamental nature of love is.

Love is not just defined by making love or kisses or gifts. It is beyond that.

For me, love is magic; it's about trust and understanding. It's putting the other person before you effortlessly.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

The best proof of love is trust.

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.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Marriage is hard work, period.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.