Quotes about Love

Love as content is in the habit of limiting formal patterns. The same goes for faith. After all, there are only so many adequate manifestations for truly strong sentiments; which, in the end, is what explains rituals.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

The distance of your love is the distance of your life.   Love is exactly as strong as life.

The encounter and separation, for all its wildness, is typical of the sufferings of love. For when a heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.

Forever isn't long at all, Christopher, as long as I'm with you.