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Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."
Sep 10, 2025
Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.
One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.
No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.
There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?
Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"
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.
Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.
We love the things we love for what they are.
I am in love and out of it I will not go.
Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.
The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.
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.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.
And that is why marriage and family law has emphasized the importance of marriage as the foundation of family, addressing the needs of children in the most positive way.
Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.
You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.
There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.
Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.
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.
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
The first duty of love is to listen.
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.
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.
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.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
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.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
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.
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.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.