100 Quotes About Marriage Advice

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '. Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous disservice. I think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages, and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about. Stephen Fry

Sexual intimacy is a relationship, not just body parts coming together. The more comfortable you are with each other outside the bedroom; the easier it is to relax and the sweeter the intimacy! Ngina Otiende

For [erotically intelligent couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. They know that they have years in which to deepen their connection, to experiment, to regress, and even to fail. They see their relationship as something alive and ongoing, not a fait accompli. It’s a story that they are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered. Esther Perel

A fulfilling long-term relationship is not accomplished by just finding the one. It is rather a co-operation between two passionate and highly motivated partners working together, figuring out every single situation holding hands. If there is trust at the root of the relationship, if the partners make an effort to keep it interesting, if difficulties are handled tactfully and if you can appreciate every single deed of your partner no matter how insignificant it is, the flames of love would never burn out and your love can truly live happily ever after. Abhijit Naskar

Love is not the primeval surge of libidinal lust that a person receives when meeting a suitable partner for the first time. Love in the truest sense of the term is born much later in a relationship, when both sides get to the know the truest selves of each other. Abhijit Naskar

My wife does not need the whole country to play politics with. We are only the two of us at home but she plays the highest form of politics with me. That’s why I don't understand her ways. I think I need to do a bit of political science to understand her Bangambiki Habyarimana

Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy. Abhijit Naskar

Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy. Abhijit Naskar

When we are at peace within our marriage, the effects can be astounding! We will raise happier children, become better employees, and overall find the joy in life. Lindsey Rietzsch

Love begets joy. Joy begets peace. Peace begets patience. Patience begets kindness. Kindness begets goodness. Goodness begets faithfulness. Faithfulness begets gentleness. Gentleness begets self-control. Lailah Gifty Akita

Let go of all your hurts and be healed. Lailah Gifty Akita

With perseverance and endurance you can survive any storm. Lailah Gifty Akita

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out. Alessandra Torre

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. Lois McMaster Bujold

Grow up, Bailey.""That is precisely what I'm doing, " Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep. Erin Morgenstern

You need to play to your strengths as a couple. Sharing is really awesome when you're messing around with Play-Doh in kindergarten. It's less awesome when you're adults and one of you is good at something and the other person sucks at it. So just let the more skilled person take the reins. Peter Scott

Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement. Nathaniel Branden

Someone once said that marriage is like standing in a corridor lined with doors. You go off through your door, he goes through his, but at the end of the day you have to come back to the corridor, touch base, hold hands, because through every door are more doors, and beyond them, more again, and if you both go through too many without coming back to the corridor, you may never find your way back. Carrie Adams

You want to know the secret to raising good kids?”“ What’s that? asked Thomas.“High expectations.” Thomas laughed. “Alright, well what’s the secret to a happy marriage?” Clyde smiled back, but his face started to fall, and he chose his words carefully. “… Low expectations. Chris Nicolaisen

A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not been sufficient stimulus to that study. Pope Pius XI

Divorce and separation, is the realization that, one of the two, no longer is growing his or her way to prosperity, next to that other person. Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The most crucial thing to know about true love is that, it is not something you can find, rather you need to build it with the person in whose eyes you see your soul. Abhijit Naskar

If your spouse wants to cheat on you, he or she will. This world is a haven of opportunities. But no matter what, in any relationship, one must never doubt the spouse Jagdish Joghee

When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn't really want your opinion. She wants her opinion - just in a deeper voice. T. Rafael Cimino

This isn't a spotless life. There is much ahead, my immaculate little peach. And there is no way to say it other than to say it: marriage is indeed this horribly complex thing for which you appear to be ill prepared and about which you seem to be utterly naive. That's okay. A lot of people are. You can learn along the way. A good way to start would be to let fall your notions about "perfect couples." It's really such an impossible thing to either perceive honestly in others or live up to when others believe it about us. It does nothing but box some people in and shut other people out, and it ultimately makes just about everyone feel like shit. A perfect couple is a wholly private thing. No one but the two people in the perfect relationship know for certain whether they're in one. Its only defining quality is that it's composed of two people who feel perfectly right about sharing their lives with each other, even during the hard times. Cheryl Strayed

Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life. Kilroy J. Oldster

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage. Nilesh Rathod

Live each day as if it could be the last day that you spend with your husband or wife. Lindsey Rietzsch

As spouses, we play a big role in the development of each other's self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. An entire personality can be destroyed and a marriage ripped apart over the course of just months. It's important that husbands and wives take this subject seriously and learn to build each other up through the simple concepts of dating. It's critical that the older we get, the younger we feel. As the years pass, our attitudes towards each other and our relationships should become more positive and our lives more meaningful. Lindsey Rietzsch

Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young. Lindsey Rietzsch

The way you date(treat) your spouse, truly has an impact inside and outside of your marriage. Lindsey Rietzsch

Ask any successfully married couple what keeps their relationship alive and they will tell you, "interest." It's as simple as that. Lindsey Rietzsch

The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you. Lindsey Rietzsch

In this changing world around us we can't help but change. Change is what makes our relationships so interesting! without it there wouldn't be anything new happening in our lives. Your job as an equal in your relationship is to look for change in your spouse and embrace it. When you show a devoted interest in every talent, hobby, desire, passion or goal that your spouse tosses on the table, you are telling your spouse that he/she is important to you. The favor will be returned tenfold. Life will become more interesting! . Lindsey Rietzsch

Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most. Lindsey Rietzsch

But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, and religion, united with sweetness of temper, modest deportment, and a love of domestic life; such is the woman who will divide the sorrows and double the joys of thy life. Take her to thyself; she is worthy to be thy nearest friend, thy companion, the wife of thy bosom. Noah Webster

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing. Amit Kalantri

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow. Jeffrey Rasley

Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the result of a lifetime of surviving. Dave Samples

Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife. Pawan Mishra

Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person. Archie Lee

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence Bangambiki Habyarimana

Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage Bangambiki Habyarimana

Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts Bangambiki Habyarimana

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married Bangambiki Habyarimana

I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife Bangambiki Habyarimana

Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her. Bangambiki Habyarimana

To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar Bangambiki Habyarimana

Wife: a former girlfriend Bangambiki Habyarimana

You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side Bangambiki Habyarimana

Husband: a former boyfriend Bangambiki Habyarimana

After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work Bangambiki Habyarimana

Marriage is but a consolidation of resources Bangambiki Habyarimana

Marriage is a lot like a roller coaster. You have extreme highs and you can have some pretty extreme lows, but the ride is worth it. Teresa Collins

No buddy is perfect Saji Ijiyemi

Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours Bangambiki Habyarimana

But perhaps the best words of wisdom come from Anne Gilberto of East Boston, who's been married to Steve for more than 50 years. In that time, they've reached a form of compromise that not only gets things done but also lets them both take satisfaction in having had their own way. The secret to their long marriage, say Anne, is this: 'I always give him the last word. I tell him what to do, and he says, 'Yes, ma'am. . Christine Schultz

To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself. Auliq Ice

My lover, best friend and husband, Sweetheart, every time you think of me, say a prayer for me! Lailah Gifty Akita

Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience. Auliq Ice

Marriage couple represent one heavenly being. Lailah Gifty Akita

Contrary to what we read in romance novels or see in Disney movies, the purpose of marriage is not to "complete you" or to "find your other half." If your goal in seeking marriage is to fill a void in yourself, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. Zofie Kae

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation. Lailah Gifty Akita

Men who demand submission and obedience through fear and force do not represent the kingdom of God. They are rather representatives of the kingdom of darkness. Marriages led by men who use force and fear do not thrive and flourish as they should. Instead, these marriages become places of bondage and oppression, and they are reminiscent of hell, the dwelling place of devil. Khuliso Mamathoni

Gracious words refresh, restore and revive the soul. Lailah Gifty Akita

Love your soul mate with all your heart and body. Lailah Gifty Akita

Every time you think of me, say a prayer for me. Lailah Gifty Akita

Pray daily for your family. Lailah Gifty Akita

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation. Stephen King

If you don't know what it is you're looking for you're NEVER going to find it. You have to be clear on what it is you're seeking. Germany Kent

You must not give up in the middle of the journey. May you have grace to travel onward. Lailah Gifty Akita

Abstaining from sex is a small fraction of the chastity process. Your intentions are just as important as the act of sex itself" The Ultimate Guide to Chastity Sandra B. James

Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Lailah Gifty Akita

A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light! Lailah Gifty Akita