Quotes About Understanding

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Love is not something people feel, but something people try to express no matter how they feel.

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

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves.

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.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Reason is not what decides love.

The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

Rush is the death of marriage.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!