Nora Fatehi Quotes

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

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.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

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

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Marriage isn't the end-point of a relationship. It's just a stepping stone, one aspect of a long-term evolution between two people who have, for whatever reason, decided to take a leap of faith and say, 'Well, hey, this is a person who I want to try with for the rest of my life.' Which is not a guarantee of perfection - far from it.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.