Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
I have been in love with my wife since I was 17. She has always been my strongest support. Even when I didn't have this fame, she was there.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
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.
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
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.
If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.
After five years of marriage, she is still the most beautiful and attractive woman in the world.
Passion is temporary. It doesn't last long. Love is enduring. And that's the important thing. If we all had love in our lives to the degree that we should, it would be much happier.
In marriage, you sacrifice the adrenaline rush of seeing someone new for the comfort of being with someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway.
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.
When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.
A love grown old is not the love once new.
The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
Mostly I dream about being with you forever.
