Lasting Love Quotes

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

I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no subsitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it.

I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

What we need is love without getting tired.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

You don't get into a relationship just for the sake of having a boyfriend. Of course, you have hopes and dreams that your first relationship will be your last.

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

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.

It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.

You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone...it's forever.

I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.