Jane Fonda Quotes

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

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

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.

Love has more depth as you get older.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.

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.

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.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

As I get older I realize what qualities are important in love and what suits me. And what I won't settle for.

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

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

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

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

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.