John Green Quotes

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

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 you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

Guys are much happier when someone puts a limit on their behavior and causes them to make a real connection with another person.

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

It's important for a guy to know and understand me before he can even think about taking things to the next step.

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

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

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

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.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

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

Hopefully you marry someone who you not only love, but who you like as well.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.