Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

My parents have been together since they were 16 years old.

I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

Love me less, but love me for a long time

Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

I think when you get married, it should be forever. Even though I did get married once and it was annulled. I don't know. For myself, I just want to have kids by the same person and stay with the same person.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.

He'll learn that many women can satisfy for a short period of time, but when he falls in love, only one will sustain him forever.

My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One