Loretta Lynn Quotes

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.

You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I found my love when I was 17-years-old and my love is one hundred percent honest. We've never had any ugly, rocky things to overcome.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Trust is a big word for me. Loyalty and trust, for me, are everything. It's the core of what I'm about and what the people around me hopefully are about. It's a certain thing that gives you a sense of security. It's the biggest factor in everything I do.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

People either leave or they stay.

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.