Patti LaBelle Quotes

In love, treat your relationship as if you are growing the most beautiful flower. Keep watering it, tend to its roots, give it lots of sunlight, and always make sure the petals are full of color and are never curling. Once you neglect your plant, it will die, as will your relationship.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Love is a flower that should never cease to grow. Nurture it, and it will outlive you. Neglect it, and it will wilt away and die.

Love is like a flower, and like the body, it needs constant feeding...And with love, also, cannot be expected to last forever unless it is continually fed with portions of love, the manifestation of esteem and admiration, the expressions of gratitude, and the consideration of unselfishness.

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

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

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

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

True love is a process. True love requires personal action.

Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.