Love Is Mutual Quotes

#1. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.

Rachel Held Evans

#2. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

Michael Lerner

#3. Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

Octavio Paz

#4. I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Dr. Seuss

#5. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

Pierre Trudeau

#7. Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.

Swami Vivekananda

#8. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Jeanette Winterson

#9. There is no heaven like mutual love.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

#10. Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

George Sand

#11. A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

Yehuda Berg

#12. Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. When we continue to hate, we continue to lose. When we amplify mutual respect and love, we have a lot to gain. Quite simply, there is more for us to gain through love than hate.

Suzy Kassem

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

Octavio Paz

#15. Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.

Jin Sun Mi

#16. There is no more delightful hour in life than that of an unconfessed but mutual love.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#17. The earth, saith the poet, doth often long after the rain. So is the glorious sky often as desirous to fall upon the earth, which argues a mutual kind of love between them.

Marcus Aurelius

#18. Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

Anthony Trollope

#20. Am I wrong about love? Is it founded on mutual respect, on like meeting like, not on heart-pounding, stomach-churning nervousness and petty compliments?

Jessica Spotswood

#21. The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect.

Jeffrey Osborne

#22. Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don't take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, just appreciate it and cherish it for what it is.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#23. The love, support, and respect the members of the theater community have for one another is unparalleled. Say what you want about us wacky drama-types, but one thing that makes our business special is our loyalty, our fierce commitment to one another, and our mutual respect.

Monica Raymund

#24. What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.

Dean Koontz

#25. What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#26. Love is strange mutual agreement in which qualities of one person gets sopped up by another person ...

Saurabh Dudeja

#27. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

#28. Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.

Denis Waitley

#29. Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

George Best

#30. That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

Francis George

#31. Marriage is a bond of mutual affection and admiration. But what if someone can only feel affection and admiration with material things because he feels secure and valuable that way?

Gracia Hunter

#32. Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.

Simone Elkeles

#33. But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

George Eliot

#34. It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

James Madison

#35. What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk

#36. Direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#37. What is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends, there's nothing left.

Zoe Heller

#38. When love is reciprocal, two people reveal each to the other through their mutual appreciation and jointly create something new. I give you as a gift to you. It is a ritual of naming and identity.

Rod Dubey

#39. The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.

Bell Hooks

#40. For still in mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness of forgiving.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#41. True love is unconditional. And if it is a 'Conditions Apply' scenari, then it isn't true love. It is as good as a mutual fund ...

Ravinder Singh

#42. Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#43. Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#44. Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

Saint Francis De Sales

#45. Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we'll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect.

Charles F. Glassman

#46. The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.

Dean Spade

#47. The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Andy Stanley

#48. Love is an attraction of mutual happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

Thomas Paine

#50. Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.

Honore De Balzac

#51. Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

Aberjhani

#52. Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

#53. Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect.

Sufjan Stevens

#54. Love is simultaneous mutual regulation, wherein each person meets the needs of the other, because neither can provide for his own. (208)

Thomas Lewis

#55. Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

Lois Wyse

#56. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#57. Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Peter Breggin

#58. We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Dr. Seuss

#59. Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Anne Bronte

#60. Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Robin Morgan

#61. This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This, too, how the love works and then doesn't: a mutual spectacle of imagination.

Chang-rae Lee

#62. The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

Quincy Jones

#63. Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

#64. A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

#65. Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Maggie Stiefvater

#66. Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Samuel Richardson

#67. Love will require mutual trust, opening your hearts and lives to each other. It takes work to build a true relationship. The same is true of Yahweh.

Lynn Austin

#68. Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

Iris Murdoch

#69. Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy.

M. Scott Peck

#70. The only way to achieve lasting peace is through mutual trust, respect, love, and kindness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#71. What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

Laura Riding

#72. Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each one receives. Communion is not a fixed state, it is an ...

Jean Vanier

#73. There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#74. The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#75. If you fall in love with someone, there's a good chance the person won't love you back. Hatred, though, is usually mutual. If you despise someone, it's pretty much a given they're also not your biggest fan.

Sylvain Neuvel

#76. One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

Nathaniel Branden

#77. Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they wove to bind these States together was one of love and mutual good offices ...

Jefferson Davis

#78. Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Charles Dickens

#79. Religion is merely the law which binds man to his Creator: in purity it has but these elements
God, the Soul, and their Mutual Recognition; out of which, when put in practise, spring Worship, Love, and Reward.

Lew Wallace

#80. Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#81. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

Isolde Martyn

#82. When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.

Samantha Harvey