Bessie Head Quotes

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

Great partnerships thrive because the people need each other.

Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

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

Love is being stupid together.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.

If you're giving love and not receiving it, you're not in the right relationship. If you're receiving it and not giving it than you are taking advantage of the other person.

The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

Partnerships are not just about bowling in tandem all the time. It all is about helping the other guy get in the right frame of mind.

You want to be with someone who you are constantly learning from, but you also feel like you give back to.

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

Bellator has taken care of me, and I've taken care of them. It's been the perfect storm of a symbiotic relationship - them having an asset they were not willing to lose, and me being in a situation where the grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.