Yoko Ono Quotes

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.

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.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

I cannot just blindly love someone.

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

I'll date one day if I find someone that I want to let into my life enough.

You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

When you're just shagging girls, you can talk about it, but once it gets real, then you don't.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Trust is not about what you can or cannot do in the name of love but who you are and what you choose to reveal as things progress and evolve.

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

You like someone, you court each other, you get into a relationship. You're answerable to each other. Whereas, the non-answerability of dating, my God, I don't know if I would ever be able to.

Love' is a big step. It's a big word. You have to work your way to it.

If there's one thing I learned about being with someone, it's you have to be willing to give every drop of yourself. Both people need to sacrifice so much to make it work and most of my single friends they don't want to do that.

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.

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

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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