Robert Sternberg Quotes

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

I believe love isn't simple, and it's one of the things that makes people break all the rules.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.

Variety is the spice of love.

I have a very intense marriage.

I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

I've never grown into loving someone. It's, like, either right away or slowly sinks in.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

As relationships progress, the time you spend smooching diminishes. Where kissing was once an enjoyable entree unto itself, it becomes a mere appetizer couples hasten through on the way to the main course.