Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

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

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

There is nothing you can control about love.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

When I met Jo Wilder, I fell crazy in love and never thought about homosexuality. And I thought, 'Well, this is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is life.'

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

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.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.