Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. — Dalai Lama
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Secret To A Happy Marriage Quotes
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. — Friedrich Koenig
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. — Denzel Washington
The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy. — Ann Romney
Never regret anything that made you smile.
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. — Ezra Taft Benson
The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth. — Ezra Taft Benson
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right? — Michelle Pfeiffer
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends. — Robert Quillen
The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials. — Cynthia Nelms
The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too. — Cindy McCain
... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without. — Lisa Kleypas
Not Happy Marriage Quotes
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person. — Eric Butterworth
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. — W. H. Auden
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. — Anthony Storr
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. — Lord Byron
The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself. — Joel Osteen
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Jonathan Swift
My Happy Marriage Quotes
You are the best thing that's ever been mine. — Taylor Swift
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. — Tommy Manville
My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce. — Joyce Brothers
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. — Marilyn Monroe
Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. — Red Skelton
My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom. — Marilyn Monroe
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over. — Rebecca West
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip. “No, the divorce was great,” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked. — Lisa Kleypas
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage. — Amanda Holden
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple. — Paulo Coelho
Happy Marriage Advice Quotes
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. — Groucho Marx
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias
Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart,
but do not expect to reach the promised land
without going through some wilderness together. — Charlie W Shedd
Enjoy life now. This is not a rehearsal.
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story. — Jennifer E. Smith
A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born. — Yukiru Sugisaki
Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families. — Augustus Napier
Happy Married Quotes
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. — Socrates
The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. — Queen Victoria
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. — Socrates
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home. — Frederick Sanger
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another. — Frank Pittman
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. — Clint Eastwood
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. — Ann Landers
For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. — Fred Ebb
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. — Amy Grant
A husband with a good wife will never be on the road without supplies. — African Proverbs
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. — H. L. Mencken
Wonderful Marriage Quotes
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. — Neil Simon
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. — Gordon Lightfoot
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. — Donald Johanson
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. — Kim Wilde
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials. — Will Rogers
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it. — Judith McNaught
Successful Marriage Quotes
(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success. — Ernest Shackleton
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success. — Storm Jameson
If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win. — John Gray
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years. — Carole Lombard
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person. — Robert Browning
Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. — Richard G. Scott
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
Happy Relationship Quotes
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. — Dalai Lama
Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen. — Bo Sanchez
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. — Oprah Winfrey
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. — Barbara De Angelis
You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us. — Christopher McCandless
We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. — Cornel West
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic." — Gretchen Rubin
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life. — Beatrix Potter
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it. — Tia Mowry
When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce. — Carl Whitaker
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it — Donald M. Fraser
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. — Isabel Gillies
Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass. — Mary Blakely
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi
If I look at blood work of a client, I can tell what kind of probability they will have for success in their career, the probability they will have a successful marriage or successful relationship. I can see how passionate they are, whether or not they experience emotions like elation, passion, exuberance, joy, happiness. — Gary Brecka
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative. — Nancy Etcoff
All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." — Linda Miles
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. — Elizabeth Aston
A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness. — Kenneth Faried
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