Nurturing Love Quotes

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one's own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

The only question is how to make love stay.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Love is an act of faith, not an exchange. Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

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"

It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

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

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.

Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

Being with someone I love and care about to feed off positive energy is crucial.

Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Love is like a flower - you have to let it grow.