H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

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

Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

All I can say is the most important part of being in a relationships that you love the person for who they are.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

I feel sexy because I feel loved. That's what sexy is-it's feeling good from the inside. When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.

It's kind of sad that couples don't want to work together, it's like, 'Wow, you really don't like the person you're with?' I'd rather kiss her then some random person I just met

I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through.

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core. He makes me want to be a better person, but then he also sees me and reminds me that I am a good person.

If every husband and every wife would constantly do whatever might be possible to ensure the comfort and happiness of his or her companion, there would be very little, if any, divorce. Argument would never be heard. Accusations would never be leveled. Angry explosions would not occur. Rather, love and concern would replace abuse and meanness.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.