Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give, the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of "how little," but always in terms of "how much." Love gives, love knows, and love lasts.

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Love is sacrifice.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

The best gift you can give to a girl is your devotion, not some Louboutins. But buy those if you're busy, for sure.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Love should be all about giving and trusting.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.