Good Marriage Quotes - Page 5

• Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Trying, Adrenal Glands, Knows

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• You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.

  Mark Driscoll

  Christian, Selfish, People

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• It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.

  Doris Day

  Stars, Ambition, Dancer

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• The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

  Michael J. Fox

  Sex, Dirty, Fighting

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

  Stephen King

  Long, Trying, Sun

  "Stephen King, Marriage Counselor? Yes... If Your Lover's a Psycho Killer". Interview with Jonathan Lees, www.complex.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Past, People, Disability

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• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

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• Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Team

  Patrick Lencioni (2005). “Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators”, p.35, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you're in a good marriage, you have the sense that it won't be forever.

  Jenny Slate

  Forever, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

  Doris Day

  Doe, Persons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

  Gene Simmons

  Communication, Forget, Poor

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• I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Two, Tree, Grace

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Endeavor, Refuse, Amity

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• I have to let myself be vulnerable in order to have a good marriage. That's something I'm really going to have to work on. A lot of times I'm really guarded because of what I do for a living, what I've done in my life.

  John Rzeznik

  Order, Done, Vulnerable

  "John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

  Michael Pearl

  Marriage, Faults, Repentance

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• I think that's the answer to a good marriage. Everyone has their own room.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, Answers, Rooms

  "90-year-old Disney Legend’s Secret To Marrying A (Much) Younger Woman". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com.sg. October 3, 2016.

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• Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

  Horst Seehofer

  Couple, Overcoming, Married

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

  George W. Bush

  Way, Made, Shared Experiences

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I base my happiness on the relationships in my life. I would rather have the absolute worst acting career or, I don't know, whatever the worst job would be... picking up radioactive material? I would much rather have that and a good marriage than a horrible marriage and a brilliant career. That's just not a trade off I'd make.

  Chris Demetral

  Acting, Brilliant, Horrible

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 5, 2003.

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• People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Couple, People, Helping

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to.

  Esther Perel

  People, Desire, Culture

  "The Deeper Reasons Why People Have Affairs". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. October 20, 2017.

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