What Is Marriage Quotes

Earlier this year, I'd told a mother at school I'd been married fifteen year. She asked, "What's the secret to a long marriage?" I thought for a second, then answered, "Staying married.

Show your love by giving your spouse incredible admiration and encouragement. - A Love Forever, Creating An Amazing Marriage.

Positive thoughts dramatically alter the direction of your life.

Heloise learned to love Abelard solely for who he was. That forbidden love brought her nothing but pain, but she would rather have shame and pain with Abelard than peace and happiness without him.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other? How had all the presence summed to disappearance?

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The “I do” that “I didn’t.

I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine

For her, marriage was a sweetened version of murder.

I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.

[Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?

Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It’s glorious some days and not so much on others.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, - whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, - which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

My parents told me to marry for money, ' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.''And look what trouble I turned out to be, ' she said.

Am I the I she tried to save, still lopsided with trying to be a little less or more, escaping who I was a minute ago?

It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

Destiny brought two souls, Jeremiah and Lailah Akita, to light the world with love.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts.

Any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day, with no time off and no pay except room and board. (p9)

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

A broken heart is not a broken glass

When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace.

If he could just have one more chance, he'd act like the man he'd always believed himself to be.

That's what marriage is, isn't it? Taking the rough with the smooth. At least, that's what it should be.

Our marriage ended because I couldn’t make him see me or hear me or do anything I wanted or needed. I could only be as selfish and mean as he was to get his attention. And that was ruinous.

Learning how to fight properly and deciding what to fight about are two of the secrets to a successful marriage. It usually comes down to the "line of respect" one way or the other.

Whether idyllic or defective, relationships are the fabric of life.

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

You have asked her to marry you, I hope''''I might have demanded it'', he admitted.''Even better

Despite all of their flaws and difficulties, these men don't want to walk out on their own lives, leave their wives and children. They want to come home.

Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there.

Troy and I loved each other. We called it 'unconditional love', which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated.

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

Why bother getting married, going through all the pomp and pageantry, if you didn't think it was going to last? It was far easier to live in sin and not have to deal with the paperwork.

Was marriage invented to cage love?

Life during the wedding day can be so simple, but life after the wedding day can be THE HARDEST.

Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.

Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

The bonds between husband and wife spring from deep laws of destiny and should not be broken lightly.

Marriage is just like business, only a few succeed, many manage & the REST RESIGN.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do.

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.