A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal. — Frank Pittman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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
Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. — Dr. Dre
A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves. — Dave Willis
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
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
You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage. — Jeremy Sisto
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
A good marriage is a contest of generosity. — Diane Sawyer
Strong Marriage Quotes
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. — Dave Willis
Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another. — Harold Klemp
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. — Deb Caletti
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. — Jim Talent
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. — Carson Daly
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair. — Amy Bloom
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. — Timothy Keller
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. — Susan Sontag
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(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
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much. — Colin Chapman
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
Travel is the healthiest addiction.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. — Harold Nicolson
The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. — Denzel Washington
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
Good Marriage Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
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
I think it's very healthy to spend time alone .You need to know how to be alone and not defined by another person .
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
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
A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams, or your dignity.
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
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
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
Healthy Relationship Quotes
Love in the Arab world is like a prisoner, and I want to set (it) free. I want to free the Arab soul, sense and body with my poetry. The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy. — Nizar Qabbani
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. — Bruce D. Perry
How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk? — Gary Smalley
To change you body you must first change your mind.
I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV. — George Lopez
Why do ppl think shredded abs = health? It you are grumpy, fatigued, & have a bad relationship with food but have abs are you truly healthy? — Layne Norton
Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people. — Bruce D. Perry
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life – like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth – they all have big opportunity costs. — Mark Manson
By changing our inner game, we can change the outer game to produce mutual satisfaction and healthy relationships. — William Ury
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
If you learn how to learn, it’s the ultimate meta skill and I believe you can learn how to be healthy, you can learn how to be fit, you can learn how to be happy, you can learn how to have good relationships, you can learn how to be successful. — Naval Ravikant
Marriage Advice Quotes
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs
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
Healthy is an outfit that looks different on everybody.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel
God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. — Kirk Cameron
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, nuerotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor
Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Healthy Family Quotes
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. — Barbara Coloroso
Globalists have waged a long war against healthy masculinity. Destroy masculinity you destroy fatherhood. Destroy fatherhood you destroy family. Destroy family you destroy childhood. Destroy childhood you create dislocation which is *required* in order to Build Back Better. — Maajid Nawaz
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world. — William J Doherty
You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. — James Dobson
The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families. — Robert Irvine
I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing. — Mark Webber
The idea is to become an old wizard; to live a long and fruitful life and have family and be healthy and enjoy the ride. And speaking of the ride, why not let it rip, at least a little bit? Everyone I know who's really stoked about getting out of bed in the morning does that to some extent. — Laird Hamilton
If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by more laws or legislation; but by fathers and mothers exerting a moral influence and example in their own families, tempered with love and understanding. — J. Spencer Kinard
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. — George Weinberg
You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. — Courtney Thorne Smith
Healthy Love Quotes
As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health - food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself. — Charlie Chaplin
When people are living from passion, they tend to be fulfilled, happy, healthy, and love everyone around them. — Lewis Howes
We love the liquidity that this provides us, we think it’s very healthy, a very healthy shakeout. — Cathie Wood
I don't mind saying in advance that in my opinion jealousy is normal and healthy. Jealousy arises out of the fact that children love. If they have no capacity to love, then they don't show jealousy. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult. — Sir David Paradine Frost
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
For protein I am pretty simple, I like chicken, steak, and eggs. For carbs I love low fat popcorn. It has a lot of volume for very little calories and is very filling. It also has about 10g of fiber per bag! — Layne Norton
Happy Marriage Quotes
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
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
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. — Henny Youngman
Encouraging Marriage Quotes
As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever
decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi
Be an encourager. The world has plenty of critics already. — Dave Willis
Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. — Pat Conroy
Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. — Frank Pittman
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." — Billy Graham
Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. — Matt Taibbi
The man who puts into the marriage only half
of what he owns will get that out. — Ronald Reagan
In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine — James E. Faust
The whole point of marriage is to encourage your partner's development and have them encourage yours. — Carol S. Dweck
Marriage Life Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy! — Paul Washer
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong. — Joycelyn Elders
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. — Meg Ryan
Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly. — Imogen Stubbs
Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. — Jennifer Crusie
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. — Ann Landers
A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables." — James Dobson
The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion. — Benjamin Franklin
The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other. — Jack LaLanne
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. — Ann Landers
Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage. — Neil Clark Warren
A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born. — Yukiru Sugisaki
Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full. — Niecy Nash
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. — Ann Landers
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The community should develop better support systems for saving or restoring potentially healthy marriages.But we should also help people who decide to divorce have healthier partings. — Stephanie Coontz
Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway. — Stephen Marche
You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.' — Shane Filan
Nothing provides the antidote to narcissism, or the environment for the healthy raising of children, or the way for people to take care of one another, as does the marriage of a man and a woman. And while most divorces are terribly sad, divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving. — Dennis Prager
Personally I'm an advocate for healthy marriages and families and I do a lot of speaking around the country sharing my faith and talking to women's groups, even specifically about marriage. — Candace Cameron
The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.' — D. James Kennedy
It is with great regret that my marriage to Grant is ending after more than six years. He is a special man and we have two amazing children together Ruby, 5, and son Rocco, 3. This was a mutual decision that was not taken lightly and we are committed to our children and will work together to ensure their happy and healthy upbringing. — Jillian Barberie
So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. — Joel Osteen
The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about. — Jay Leno
We go to school and teachers teach us to read and write but nobody teaches us about the purposeful commitment and intentionality it takes to make our marriages healthy and sustain love over a lifetime. Most people seem to think love should "naturally" sustain itself as it did during the beginning of our relationship with each other -but that just isn't realistic. — Cindy Wright
Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is not her relationship with her children. It is her love for her husband. The love between husband and wife is the real key to a thriving family. A healthy home environment cannot be built exclusively on the parents' love for their children. The properly situated family has marriage at the center; families shouldn't revolve around the children. — John F. MacArthur
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the necessary gaps through which you interact with family and friends; the walls are the barriers of trust behind which you guard the most intimatesecrets of your marriage. — Elizabeth Gilbert
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