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

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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted
.-- Aldous Huxley

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Women and men have to fight together to change society -- and both will benefit. Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage. -- Muriel Fox

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Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn’t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
-- Hugh Elliott

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. -- Ovid

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When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' -- Rita Rudner

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Recipe for a great marriage: blend until smooth. -- Bill Purdin

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Shared joy is joy doubled. Shared sorrow is sorrow halved. -- Anonymous

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The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other. -- Rebecca Tilly

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Marriage is the only war where you sleep with the enemy. -- Gary Busey

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If you would have the nuptial union last,
Let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.
-- Nicholas Rowe

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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. -- Ellen Goodman

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Tell me who you live with and I will tell you who you are. -- Spanish Proverb

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Tenderness is the repose of passion. -- Joseph Joubert

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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

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -- John Ruskin

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Marriage changes everything, and everything in marriage changes. -- Bill Purdin

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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everyone. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections, and enduring undertakings.
-- Andre Maurois

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They are standing at the alter. He is hoping that she will never change. She just knows he'll change. They are both wrong. -- Bill Purdin

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

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. -- Plautius (c.254 to 184 BC)

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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. -- Sam Levenson