170 Marriage And Love Inspirational Quotes

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Famous Marriage And Love Inspirational Quotes

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde

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

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. — Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — G. K. Chesterton

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. — Lao Tzu

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. — Barbara De Angelis

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. — John Hagee

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. — Mary Astell

One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. — Larry Christiansen

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

Short Marriage And Love Inspirational Quotes

  • Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
  • [Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova
  • Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. — Ambrose Bierce
  • The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
  • Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
  • Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
  • Love conquers all things. — Virgil
  • A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
  • A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

Marriage And Love Inspirational Image Quotes

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. - Edgar Allan Poe quote

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe

Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. - Rumi quote

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love. — Rumi

Love, and you shall be loved. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

Love, and you shall be loved. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage and love inspirational quote I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.

Inspirational Love Quotes

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

Marriage and love inspirational quote Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama

Love And Marriage 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

Marriage and love inspirational quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein

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

Marriage and love inspirational quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani

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

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

Christian Inspirational Quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going. — Reinhard Bonnke

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. — Smith Wigglesworth

Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody. — Dwight L. Moody

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right. — Ravi Zacharias

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation. — Clare of Assisi

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. — Corrie Ten Boom

Wedding Love Quotes

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy

When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare

Wedding Marriage Quotes

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson

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

Two human loves make one divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. — Groucho Marx

Romance In Marriage Quotes

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. — Nicholas Sparks

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. — Jimmy Evans

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. — Gayle Forman

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

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Jonathan Swift

The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance. — Joan Fontaine

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. — Unknown

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran

In the Forest of Forgetting do you remember any romances? All the relationships in those stories are dark and twisted - people fall in love, but they really shouldn't have. There's even a story about a marriage, but it focuses on a woman who marries a bear! — Theodora Goss

Marriage And Family Quotes

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa

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 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

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

When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort. — J. M. W. Turner

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family — Drew Barrymore

I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson

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

Married Love Quotes

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. - Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Love is so much better when you're not married. - Maria Callas

Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas

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

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. — Jackie Kennedy

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams

The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love. — Hafez

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place. — Vida Goldstein

Love And Inspiration Quotes

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me. — Clare of Assisi

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud

Learn from yesterday, live for today. — Albert Einstein

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky. — Unknown Author

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race. — Sarojini Naidu

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts

Weddings And Love Quotes

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children. — Gad Saad

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. — Kiersten White

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. - Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. - James M. Barrie

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — James M. Barrie

We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise. — Elliot Page

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great. — Vera Wang

I think true love – love, wine and beauty, they better with age. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you. - Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you. — Charles M. Schulz

For me, growing up and watching Test cricket and absolutely loving it, that’s been the pinnacle for me with cricket. — Ellyse Perry

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More Marriage And Love Inspirational Quotes

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

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

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi

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

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

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you. — John Powell

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

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

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable. — Mahatma Gandhi

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. — Alfred Adler

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

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. — Paul Tournier

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 righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king. — Boonaa Mohammed

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death. — Wayne Mack

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty. — R. C. Sproul

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known. — Julia Quinn

Love never claims, it ever gives. — Mahatma Gandhi

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke

Let there be spaces in your togetherness — Kahlil Gibran

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. — Criss Jami

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone

Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. — Ravi Zacharias

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours. — Kurt Vonnegut

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. — George Eliot

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person — John Travolta

Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away — Robert Frost

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness. — John Selden

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real. — C. S. Lewis

Growing marriages aren't determined by how much you have in common but by how graciously you deal with your differences. — Rick Warren

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born. — Yukiru Sugisaki

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I'm sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another. — Nicholas Sparks

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth. — Marianne Williamson

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

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