Every generation rediscovers that love reads best in a mirror. The most quoted lines about love take what we assume — that love is a feeling that happens to us — and turn it around into something chosen, built, and kept. Use these for vows, anniversary cards, and wedding toasts.
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.
We love because He first loved us.
Love is not a feeling you fall into; it is a promise you stand on.
Romance is loving how someone makes you feel; love is caring how you make them feel.
You don't keep someone by holding on tighter; you keep them by making them freer.
Real love doesn't ask you to be perfect; it asks you to be present.
Choose to love on the days the feeling fails, and the feeling will return to the days you chose.
The heart does not empty by giving; the heart empties by withholding.
A grudge keeps the wound alive; forgiveness lets love outlive the wound.
You don't earn love by performing; real love is what ends the performance.
Falling in love is what happens to you; staying in love is what you build.
Love doesn't count what it gave yesterday; love counts itself lucky to give today.
Small love keeps asking, 'Do you still love me?' Great love keeps answering before fear has to ask.
Weak love says, 'Change so I can love you'; strong love says, 'I love you while we both change.'
The wrong love makes you beg for reassurance; the right love becomes reassurance before you beg.
Weak love treats forgiveness as surrender; strong love treats forgiveness as freedom.
Small love wants to be chased; great love learns how to stay.
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