Love quotes that are not from a greetings card

You can always find reasons to leave. You just need to find more reasons to stay.

Don't marry someone who doesn't understand that you need to work, or sees your work as competition for your attention.

So ancient is the desire of one another which is implanted in us, reuniting our original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of man.

Between Husband and Wife there is thought to be Friendship by a law of nature: man being by nature disposed to pair, more than to associate in Communities.

I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I believe the most important decision in your life is who you choose as your life partner.

We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love-object or its love.

I am speaking, of course, of that way of life which makes love the centre of all things and anticipates all happiness from loving and being loved.

Don’t keep score, and bring forgiveness, generosity, and engagement.

Whom you have kids with is the most important decision you will make.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

One of the things with kids is that you see the world anew in their eyes. To them, everything is new and fresh.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Strive to love your neighbor actively and indefatigably.

Mothers have greater strength of affection than fathers.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men.

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.

Wife and children I have not reckoned amongst a man's possessions: he is rather in their possession.