Marriages Quotes

“Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.”
― Shannon l. Alder

“we all make vows, Jimmy. And there is something very beautiful and touching and noble about wanting good impulses to be permanent and true forever," she said. "Most of us stand up and vow to love, honor and cherish someone. And we truly mean it, at the time. But two or twelve or twenty years down the road, the lawyers are negotiating the property settlement."
"You and George didn't go back on your promises."
She laughed. "Lemme tell ya something, sweetface. I have been married at least four times, to four different men." She watched him chew that over for a moment before continuing, "They've all been named George Edwards but, believe me, the man who is waiting for me down the hall is a whole lot different animal from the boy I married, back before there was dirt. Oh, there are continuities. He has always been fun and he has never been able to budget his time properly and - well, the rest is none of your business."
"But people change," he said quietly.
"Precisely. People change. Cultures change. Empires rise and fall. Shit. Geology changes! Every ten years or so, George and I have faced the fact that we have changed and we've had to decide if it makes sense to create a new marriage between these two new people." She flopped back against her chair. "Which is why vows are such a tricky business. Because nothing stays the same forever. Okay. Okay! I'm figuring something out now." She sat up straight, eyes focused somewhere outside the room, and Jimmy realized that even Anne didn't have all the answers and that was either the most comforting thing he'd learned in a long time or the most discouraging. "Maybe because so few of us would be able to give up something so fundamental for something so abstract, we protect ourselves from the nobility of a priest's vows by jeering at him when he can't live up to them, always and forever." She shivered and slumped suddenly, "But, Jimmy! What unnatural words. Always and forever! Those aren't human words, Jim. Not even stones are always and forever.”
― Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

“The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Weddings have logic, but Marriages have emotions”
― Santosh Avvannavar, Dear Wife, Your Husband is not a Superhero: “Weddings have logic, but Marriages have only emotions”

“Our relationship became a Jenga tower, and one by one we began pulling out the pieces, the structure increasingly fragile. We argued furiously and relentlessly about everything, shouting insults that left us both hoarse the next morning. When, on the first Monday of April, I handed in my notice at work, the tower tumbled, blocks spilling everywhere. Two days later, Lena packed her bags and left the flat for good.”
― Andy Marr, A Matter of Life and Death

“Joan was always curious what it was like on the inside of a marriage. What happened when it was just the two of them at home, Duke and Kris? Did she have to ask him for permission to buy new clothes? Did he sometimes tell her he didn’t like what she made for dinner? Joan tried to ward off the sadness that always came when she pictured a marriage—any marriage. Her parents’ marriage seemed fine to her. Good, even. They still loved each other. Her mother, basically a vegetarian, made her father’s favorite meatloaf most weekends with a joy that Joan had scrutinized for years but found completely sincere. Still, when she thought about it, a gloom dared to take over. You could develop your personality your entire life—pursue the things you wanted to learn, discover the most interesting parts of yourself, hold yourself to a certain standard—and then you marry a man and suddenly his personality, his wants, his standards subsume your own? Joan knew that society was changing and some men were changing with it. Some of them now understood that a woman’s career, her life, her passions were just as important as their own. But still, all Joan could think was that it was now just two people cutting off parts of themselves to make themselves fit together. A world of vegetarians cooking meatloaf.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.”
― Amit Abraham

“But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already. That's like scarlatina—one has to go through it and get it over.”
― Léon Tolstoï

“Fight for not with your spouse.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.

“Live intentionally to stay connected.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.

“Speak gratitude not complaints.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.

“You reap what you sow. Plant the right seeds.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.

“Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, WELCOME TO YOUR MARRIED FOR A PURPOSE REBOOT FACILITATOR’S GUIDE: A handbook to assist Married for a Purpose Certified Coaches in leading personal one-on-one Reboot Retreats for Married Couples.

“Marriage requires us to exchange our selfish nature for Christ's servant-like nature.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman

“God never promised us a problem-free relationship, experiencing total bliss every moment; He promised us He would be with us.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“The inherent problem is that we fail to grow when we insist that all our problems are someone else's fault.”
― Greg Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“The inherent problem is that we fail to grow when we insist that all our problems are someone else's fault.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“Perhaps one of the greatest lies the enemy traps us into believing is that a blissful marriage just happens naturally.”
― Greg Gorman & Julie Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“Whether our conflicts are gigantic or minute, confrontations typically result from unmet expectations.”
― Greg Gorman and Julie Gorman

“But if we want thriving marriages, we must stop focusing on our own needs and commit to focusing on meeting theirs.”
― Greg Gorman and Julie Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“Many marital arguments stem from expectations formed in childhood. You can avoid a lot of arguments by understanding the origin of one another's expectations and working toward cultivating realistic expectations together.”
― Greg Gorman and Julie Gorman, Thrive in Marriage: Unlocking 10 Secrets to a Thriving Marriage

“Lusting after other women is a symptom of a heart that has turned away from God. Such desires are a manifestation of demonic influence, leading men down a path of destruction and chaos. God's judgment awaits those who refuse to repent and turn back to Him, for their actions bring harm to themselves and others.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Most of us, if we’re honest about it, want to be adored and held dear in our love life. We want to reach that twentieth, or thirty-second, or forty-fifth wedding anniversary and be able to say, “She’s the love of my life, and I can’t possibly imagine a day without her,” or “He’s the very best person I know, and I am so lucky to be in love with him.” We want intimacy, we want sweetness and joy, and we want a grace-filled experience of love. But look around. Who has taught us to love well? Who has given us the skills we need to help make our genuine commitment translate itself into a daily loving practice? For many of us, the answer is: no one. No one has taught us how to do this, so we must teach ourselves.”
― Ashley Willis, The Naked Marriage: Undressing the truth about sex, intimacy and lifelong love

“A kingdom marriage is not just about our happiness, but about our holiness – becoming more like Christ together.”
― Shaila Touchton

“Towns and marriages consist of stories. Where one starts, another one ends.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Buth marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together.”
― Tomi Obaro

“But marriages were mysterious and private things, even to the people in the marriages themselves. One spouse's perception of how the relationship was fairing could be drastically different from the other spouse's. In marriage, you were ultimately alone together”
― Tomi Obaro, Dele Weds Destiny

“One of her duties as a widow, she had learned, was to provide dramatic proof to the neighboring wives that, bad as their husbands might be at times, life without them would be worse.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction