Niecy Nash 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.

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.

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.

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

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

There is nothing you can control about 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.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're 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.

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 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 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.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

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 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.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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