Healthy Marriage Quotes:

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.

- William J Doherty

topic: Marriage, Couple, Children, Lasting Marriage, Healthy Marriage

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.

- Meg Ryan

topic: Marriage, Men, Long, Healthy Marriage

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

- James E. Faust

topic: Marriage, Beautiful, Gratitude, Healthy Marriage

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

- Imogen Stubbs

topic: Marriage, Joy, Solace, Positive Marriage, Healthy Marriage

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.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

topic: Lasting Marriage, Healthy Marriage

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

- Rainer Maria Rilke

topic: Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage, Marriage Anniversary, Marriage Life

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

- Michael Leunig

source: Michael Leunig (2006). “When I Talk to You: A Cartoonist Talks to God”, p.131, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Anniversary, Simple, Love One Another, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Engagement

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

- Yukiru Sugisaki

topic: Marriage, Heart, Nouns, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

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.

- Marnie Reed Crowell

source: Marnie Reed Crowell (1973). “Greener pastures”

topic: Marriage, Breathing, Two, Positive Marriage, Fire Burning

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

- Rosemonde Gerard

topic: Love, Romantic, Marriage, St Valentine, Marriage Love

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

- George Eliot

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marriage Problems, Inspirational Relationship

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

- Orlando Aloysius Battista

topic: Love, Relationship, Marriage, Marriage Advice, Weakness Of Man

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

- Emily Bronte

source: Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

topic: Love, Anniversary, Romantic, Make Me Feel Special, Marriage And Love Inspirational

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

- Mason Cooley

topic: Love, Romantic, Wedding, Impress A Girl, Say I Love You

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.

- Robert Anderson

topic: Love, Inspirational, Anniversary, Husband To Be, Amputation

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

- Ruth Graham

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

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

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...

- Barbara De Angelis

source: Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

topic: Love, Relationship, Marriage, Marriage Problems, Inspirational Marriage

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Marriage, Might, Sometimes, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Marriage And Divorce

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.

- Ann Landers

topic: Love, Inspirational, Relationship, Married Couples, Great Marriage

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.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Marriage, Wedding, Marriage Advice, Marriage Problems

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

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

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.

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Marriage, Love You, Verbs, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds, Inspirational Marriage

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

- Tom Robbins

source: Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

topic: Love, Marriage, Time, Lovers Love, Inspirational Romance

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

- Rita Rudner

topic: Love, Funny, Marriage, Humorous Love, Humorous Valentine

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Soulmate Love

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

- Simone Signoret

topic: Love, Marriage, Women, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Love, Break Up, Marriage, Say I Love You, Love Poems

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

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

topic: Love, Marriage, Fall, Husband To Be, Marriage Advice

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

- Theodore Hesburgh

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Happy Family, Marriage Advice

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

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

topic: Love, Change, Anniversary, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

- Joseph Barth

topic: Marriage, Growing Up, Lasts, Marriage And Love Inspirational, Marriage Life

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

source: Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Positive, Great Feelings, Always Happy

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

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Soulmate Love, Soulmates Best Friends

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

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Long, Healthy, Secret, Healthy Marriage

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

- Stephen Marche

topic: Views, Perspective, Healthy, Healthy Marriage

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.

- Candace Cameron

source: Source: www.beliefnet.com

topic: Marriage And Family, Healthy Marriage

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.

- James Dobson

topic: Family, Loyalty, Children, Large Family, Family Unit

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.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Love Story”, p.84, Penguin

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Wall, Healthy Marriage

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

- Jay Leno

topic: Inspirational, Fighting, Keys, Healthy Marriage