Helen Rowland Quotes

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

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

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.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Close friendships are one of life's miracles - that a few people get to know you deeply, all your messy or shadowy stuff along with the beauty and sweetness, and they still love you. Not only still love you, but love you more and more deeply. I would do anything for my closest friends, and they would do almost anything for me, and that is about as spiritual a truth as you can get.

What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Why must one love rarely to love well?

Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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.

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.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

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

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

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.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.