Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.
The person who does not decide to love forever will find it very difficult to really love for even one day.
I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.
He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.
Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man
If you can stay in love for more than two years, you're on something.
I don't need a great deal of love but I do need a steady supply.
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?
Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.
You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.
