Positive Marriage Quotes - Page 2

• At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

  Larry Christiansen

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

  Imogen Stubbs

  Love, Marriage, Joy

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• 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

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.65, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Purpose, Glorify, Ultimate

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe/Companion Guide for Lies Women Believe- 2 book set”, p.92, Moody Publishers

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• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  Robert Frost

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

  Julia Child

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

  George Eliot

  Love, Life, Relationship

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.5884, Delphi Classics

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• Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Two

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• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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

  Relationship, Marriage, Real

  Michele Weiner Davis (2002). “The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

  Paul Pearsall

  Marriage, Dancer, Process

  Paul P. Pearsall, Paul Pearsall (1991). “The Power of the Family”, Bantam Books

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• As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

  Socrates

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

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  A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

  Ruth Graham

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  Ruth Bell Graham, Gigi Tchividjian (2009). “A Quiet Knowing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

  Simone Signoret

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow

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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Change, Anniversary

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• One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Marriage, Funny Valentines Day

  Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside

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

  James Dobson

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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  Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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• a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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, Marriage, Wedding

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.84, Penguin

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