Maeve Binchy Quotes

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.

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

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

Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!

Your greatest achievement is to love me.

I love you if you love me.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

There is nothing you can control about love.

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we're not so happy.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a great feeling that happens, that is telling you, I don't want to leave this room!

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'

The most important right is the right to say to your companion “I love you” and have that be recognized.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.

I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.

When I was in B2K, we were just talking about love, being in love. But now I'm talking about being intimate, understanding what love really is about.