All Quotes By Tag: Marriage

“If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.”

“There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn’t Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.”

“…[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.”

“[…] marriage is one thing, and love is another…You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques…”

“Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.”

“My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.”

“To lovers out there…If your partner is understating , caring , loving, supportive, loyal and forgiving. Every person has their own limit. Don’t take advance of them, because there will be one day where they will reach they limit and you wont matter to them or have space in their heart anymore. Don’t push them on good they do to you, because one day , they will be fed-up and exhausted that they wont take it anymore . Instead stop your bad habits before its too late.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love – that’s the reason one should never marry.”

“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening …”

“Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.”

“It is too late for me to learn your wisdom in this matter. From the time I knew aught, I have lived with a knight and his lady whose love lit and warmed the dark hall on winter’s nights. Madam, my example comes not from any book of romance. My grandparents walked and breathed; they kissed and quarreled. This I must have, and I will seek it with the point of my knife in a bad husband’s heart if I can find it no other way.”

“The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You’re just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won’t. Once the initial high wears off, you’ll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something — it’s about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession — a free-agent penis — and for us, it’s the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.”

“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are married; try and make the woman you love happy. Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says ‘I will make her happy,’ makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, ‘I will make him happy.’ There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.”

“Now some of you will say that the two are one and the same – happiness and joy – but this is not so. Happiness is a feeling. Happiness is fleeting, dependent on the moment, the circumstances, even the weather. Joy is transcendent, enduring, and, in the biblical context, is not an emotion. Joy is an attitude of the heart. Joy brings us peace, a refuge in the midst of troubles. God gives us joy through His Spirit. But the enemy tries to steal your joy and give you temporary happiness instead. Now, is there anything wrong with being happy? Nee, but it cannot last. So, you may wonder why I bring up the difference between these two – it is simple really. […] marriage is sacred before the Lord, a decision for a lifetime, but too often I think young people look upon it as a source of happiness. Do not look at marriage this way. See it as a reservoir of joy, a deep, welling spring that endures the icy blast of temper, the bite of an angry word, the void of loneliness in a heart hungry for talk when there is no response. […] Seek joy in each other, not happiness.”