Maggie Gallagher Quotes

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I always see people tweeting about these crazy amazing things their boyfriend or girlfriend did for them. You shouldn't have to constantly be trying to prove your love when you're in a relationship.

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Love - at least the pair-bonded, prescribed love - does not conquer all.

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

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

I think if you're in love, you're willing to do anything that comes with it.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'.

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

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

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

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

You can't just turn love on and off.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

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.