1. “It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.”
2. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. Still, people often spend more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.”
3. “The success or failure of any relationship depends not just on how we feel about each other but on how we make each other feel about ourselves.”
4. “Sometimes in a relationship, we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together.”
5. “She realized when relationships failed to last; it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.”
6. “In terms of relationships, I’ve had two failures though I don’t like to call them failures; they are self-learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I’ve always said, “I am a much-loved woman.”
7. “I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.”
8. “I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”
9. “Relationships fail because people take their own insecurities and twist them into their partner’s flaws.”
10. “People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.”
11. “Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action.”
12. “Marriage is not a bed of roses, but it has its beautiful roses; neither is it a walk in the park, but you can have a memorable walk.”
13. “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself by putting them back together.”
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14. “There’s nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.”
15. “Cry. forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
16. “Make it your goal to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.”
17. “The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth, but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it.”
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18. “Thinking of Father’s scheme to marry me off, I said, “Sometimes people are forced into wedlock. If they must marry, perhaps it’s better if they must love.”
19. “When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that; irreconcilable.”
20. “For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardships our lot in life.”
21. “Like a thermometer, love and hate also have their own degrees, there are extreme love and hate.”
22. “For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.”
23. “True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability”
24. “Sometimes, I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
25. “A good marriage isn’t something you find; it’s something you make.”
26. “Compatibility doesn’t determine the fate of a marriage; how you deal with the incompatibilities does”
27. “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.”
28. “Love is not a weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
29. “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love.”
30. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.”
31. “A good marriage requires falling in love many times with the same person.”
32. “If he can’t handle you at your worst, then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.”
33. “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
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34. “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.”
35. “It is better to get married with the mindset that you are going to give rather than get.”
36. “We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.”
37. “You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn’t.”
38. “Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business, or a hobby.”
39. “More marriages might survive if partners realize the better comes after the worst”
40. “Rich only matters if he marries you,” I said grimly. “Handsome matters not at all.”
41. “The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.”
42. “The demise of marriages begins with a growing absence of responsive intimate interactions. The conflict comes later.”
43. “Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
44. “The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”
45. “Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.”
46. “Marriage has no guarantees. If that is what you want, go buy a car battery.”
47. “And I know, with the newfound clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my parents were never happy together, and probably never would have been, whatever the circumstances.”
48. “Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself, not what’s left over after you gave your best to everyone else.”
49. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
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50. “More marriages might survive if the partners realize that sometimes, the better comes after the worse.”
51. “I didn’t have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn’t know any gay people until I began doing theater.”
52. “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.”
53. “Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.”
54. “Between what is said and not meant, what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”
55. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
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56. “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
57. “A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time”
58. “Every person that finally figured out their worth has picked up their suitcase of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
59. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
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60. “Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage – they’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.”
61. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
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62. “You’ll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.”
63. “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”
64. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
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65. “The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.”
66. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
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67. “And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn’t said, the fact that he hadn’t loved her.”
68. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.”
69. “So many pleasing episodes of one’s life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”
70. “Neither of us is happy but neither of us wants to leave. So we keep breaking one another and calling it love”
71. “Don’t spend too much time beating on a wall, hoping it will transform into a door.”
72. “A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.”
73. “I married a man who worked for the telephone company. A telephone man who fell in love with long distance.”
74. “I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.”
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75. “Marriage is imperfect. We start with a desire for oneness, and then we discover our differences. Our fears are aroused by the prospect of all the things we’re never going to have.”
76. “I couldn’t think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I’ve seen it destroy people.”
77. “Placing blame in marriage is like saying, ‘Your side of the boat is sinking.’”
78. “Having your heart broken by the one you love the most can be like a thousand paper cuts or one massive and decisive blow. Either way, the pain is profound.”
79. “If I know anything about women, I know they’re not going to accept infidelity any way you serve it up. I don’t care what they say. No one wants the one they love running around on ’em.”
80. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
81. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
82. “It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”
83. “Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that’s how you’ll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.”
84. “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
85. “It is important that we forgive ourselves for past mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
86. “You married him because he promised to love, honor, and cherish you. When all of those promises are broken time and again, you are left with a broken heart.”
87. “Real love has little to do with falling. It’s a climb up the rocky face of a mountain, hard work, and most people are too selfish or too scared to bother.”
88. “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities makes it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
89. “There is nothing lonelier than being in a marriage and feeling unseen by your husband. You feel like a ghost in your own home.”
