Healthy Marriage Quotes

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

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.

The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

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

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.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

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.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

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

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

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

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.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

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.

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.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

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.

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

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

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

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.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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.

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.

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

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

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

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

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

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

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.

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.