A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love. — Madeleine L'Engle
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
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
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation. — Bertrand Russell
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. — Andre Maurois
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman
Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage. — Joey Ramone
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
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. — Rita Rudner
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. — Jack Kingston
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. — Robert Anderson
Long Marriage Quotes
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. — Amy Bloom
(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
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. — Umberto Eco
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. — Henny Youngman
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
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
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate. — Carnie Wilson
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen
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
Long Lasting Relationship Quotes
So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last? — Jacque Fresco
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term? — Nicholas Sparks
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
When you think something nice about someone, tell them right then. It's a tiny habit that will pay long-lasting dividends. — Sahil Bloom
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves. — Francoise Sagan
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it. — Jennifer Beals
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
Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence. — Leslie Morgan Steiner
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. — Chelsea Handler
Long Term Relationship Quotes
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys. — Nicholas Sparks
Play long-term games with long-term people. All returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. — Naval Ravikant
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. — Naval Ravikant
Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
Putting your company’s purpose at the foundation of your relationships with your stakeholders is critical to long-term success. — Larry Fink
The journey is long, but the goal is in each step.
I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it. — Michael Kirby
In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities. — Henry Sy
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. — Harriet Lerner
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. — W. Edwards Deming
Years Of Marriage Quotes
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree — Vita Sackville-West
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. — Simone Signoret
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California — Jerry Brown
There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. — Maajid Nawaz
Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out. — Rich Vos
Once our minds are tattooed with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set. — Robert Wolgemuth
One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage. — James Dobson
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
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Long Relationship Quotes
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long. — Jeph Jacques
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. — Douglas Pagels
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
Not everyone thinks the way you think, know the things you know, believes the things you believe, nor acts the way you would act. Remember this and will go a long way in getting along with people.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. — Nicholas Sparks
Things must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen
It is difficult for two long-nosed lovers to kiss. — African Proverbs
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
It doesn't matter how slow you go, just as long you don't stop.
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
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
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
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
Good Marriage Quotes
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
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
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
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
Lasting Marriage Quotes
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
It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. — Carrie Underwood
My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan — Stephenie Meyer
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
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
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. — Alan Zweibel
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song. — Etta James
The divorce rate would be lower if instead of marrying for better or worse
people would marry for good. — Ruby Dee
Healthy Marriage Quotes
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
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
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
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
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
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
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
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
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
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. — Pink
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness. — Alice Walker
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. — P. J. O'Rourke
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here. — Garrett Hedlund
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups. — Cokie Roberts
We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay? — Yvette Cooper
We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries. — Pete Coors
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage. — Will Self
This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love. — Ed Miliband
I know a lot of people that have been in long-term relationships where cheating has happened, and their marriages and their relationships are actually stronger because it was a mirror that reflected back on a problem that was happening. It's hard. — Sutton Foster
Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship. — Tim Matheson
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners. — Elisabeth Elliot
I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly. — Rashida Jones
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. — Madeleine L'Engle
Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime. — Lori Gottlieb
I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits. — Dick Cheney
Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness. — Bill Hybels
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only. — John Maynard Keynes
Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in the way two people negotiate their own personal amalgam of companionship and sex, compromise and disappointment, lust and tenderness, trust and lies. The challenge for the rest of us is to do the same. — Suzanne Braun Levine
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time. — Madeleine L'Engle
I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely. — Lorrie Moore
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