Marie Corelli Quotes

I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

It's easy to fall in love, but it's a lot harder to sustain love.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

'Stay' is all about how to stay in a relationship past the newness and love stronger.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.