10 Thought-Provoking Quotes From The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Recently, I read Gary Chapman’s classic book on how to express and experience love in relationships, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. It totally changed the way I’ve been thinking about love. Here were some of the quotes I highlighted. I hope they resonate with you as much as they did with me.

1. “For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships.”
2. “We speak and understand best our native language. We feel most comfortable speaking that language. The more we use a secondary language, the more comfortable we become conversing in it. If we speak only our primary language and encounter someone else who speaks only his or her primary language, which is different from ours, our communication will be limited. We must rely on pointing, grunting, drawing pictures, or acting out our ideas. We can communicate, but it is awkward.”
3. “What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.”
4. “Verbal compliments, or words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love.”
5. “We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.”
6. “We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is…