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Advice and quotes about the joys and problems of long distance relationships, and how to make one work - with courage and humor.
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
-
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
-
Elizabeth Ashley
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
-
Benjamin Franklin
Love is not a mere sentiment.
Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
If I never met you, I wouldn't like you.
If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you.
If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you.
But I did, I do, and I will.
- Anonymous
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.
- Robert Fulghum.
And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
-
Robert Browning
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
-
Pearl S. Buck
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
The best thing about me is you.
- Shannon Crown
To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Bill Wilson (disputed)
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
- Anonymous
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Guys are like stars, there are millions of them, but only one to make your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love doesn't make the world go 'round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Love is not a matter of counting the years, but making the years count.
- Michele St. Amand
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss
Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous
You know you love someone when you know you want them to be happy, even if their happiness means that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
Love is like a butterfly, it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.
- Anonymous
Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
-
Joseph Campbell
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
-
Quentin Crisp
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
-
Rainer Maria Rilke
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
-
May Sarton
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
-
Keanu Reeves
Every day is Christmas when you are open to receiving love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Your love is more powerful than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
1. A long distance relationship isn't a casual relationship - stay committed - and show it.
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
2. Stay in touch daily.
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
3. Communicate clearly - use extra care.
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
4. Be extra supportive and understanding.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
5. Don't let little conflicts become big ones.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
-
William James
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
-
Mike Murdock
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
-
Sarah Jessica Parker
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
-
Larry David
6. Don't be manipulative.
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
-
Robert Anthony
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
7. Express your love again, and again, and again.
When love is not madness, it is not love.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand
Love your spouse as they are, and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
8. Trust each other - and honor that trust.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
-
Iris Murdoch
9. Visit often.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
-
Arthur Schopenhauer
10. Plan for re-joining your lives and living together.
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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