To remain in love for a lifetime: listen actively to your partner, ask questions, give answers, appreciate, stay attractive, include your partner, give him/her privacy, be honest and trustworthy, tell your mate what you need, accept his/her shortcomings as who they are, give respect in all things, never threaten to leave, say 'no' to adultery, and cultivate variety in your activities to keep things fresh. You can never say 'I love you' too many times and you should say it every day. Even though you've been together forever it seems, you should still continue to 'date' your mate and find new ways to fall in love with them every. Single. Day.

We tend to think of love as an uncontrollable feeling that comes over us. Although this overwhelming feeling does happen, real love and love that is sustained is always a choice. You choose to be open to someone, you choose to accept them, and that openness and acceptance allows love to flow. This process is often unconscious, so we often don’t realize we are choosing to accept someone when it’s happening. But that choice to accept someone is what precedes love. It happens unconsciously all the time, and it can happen more consciously too.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.

Accept responsibilities for all your actions. Learn from your past and your mistakes.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.