Love Maintenance Quotes

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

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

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

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"

Love - keep on doing it.

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.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

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

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

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.

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people will do well to reevaluate, to renew their courting, to express their affection, to acknowledge kindness, and to increase their consideration so their marriage again can become beautiful, sweet, and growing. While marriage is difficult, and discordant and frustrated marriages are common, yet real, lasting happiness is possible, and marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive.

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

There is no harvest for the heart alone. The seed of love must be eternally re-sown.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.