Marriage Quotes - Page 16

....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.

Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.

If you cannot be yourself in a relationship, you no longer have one.

To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

Compromising is the only path that all happy couples travel on.

We made love. Extraordinary love.

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage - and for all Christian relationships - is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

Human beings are hard-wired to make relationships. We do so in many capacities, fleeting and long-lasting, between different sexes, both inside and outside of the confines of the almost universally accepted partnership we called marriage.

I fear that this is what long term relationships are all about, at base: full-time role-playing, memorized and inhabited.

Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. You must not act under the impetus of charm, but out of a commitment to make someone's life the joy you want it to be.

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me.

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

There is so much more to marriage than who makes the money. Some of the hardest parts don't come with a paycheck.

It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he'll change but he doesn't - and a man marries a woman in the belief that she won't change but she does.

He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

So I'll be your queen if you'll be my king,
My knight to defend my claimed heart.
I need no crown, just your last name and a ring
And the promise you'll never depart.