Saint Augustine Quotes

I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation.

If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.

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.

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.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

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

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.

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 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.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

It takes time to love someone properly, and in this business, you get very wary of people.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

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

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

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

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

Love is hard.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

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.