Quotes About Partnership

This, presumably, means that we are now in league with life.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

But marriage is marriage, you know. Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair is a totally different thing. A marriage is a commitment to that which you are. That person is literally your other half. And you and the other are one. A love affair isn't that. That is a relationship for pleasure, and when it gets to be unpleasurable, its off. But a marriage is a life commitment, and a life commitment means the prime concern of your life. If marriage is not the prime concern, you're not married.

You're no longer this one alone; your identity is in a relationship. Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

There is nothing that you and I could not accomplish together, if we gave our minds to it.

Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.

Being a wife to a man is like being a lid to a jar: if she doesn't fit, he'll simply try another lid.

It's so much more friendly with two.

TO MY COLLABORATOR who buys the ink and paper laughs and, in fact, does all the really difficult part of the business this book is gratefully dedicated in memory of a winter's morning in Switzerland

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

Your spouse is your closest relative and is entitled to depend on you as a committed ally, supporter, and champion.

For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...

You" or "Your" never meant one of us. When we replied to a question, no one cared which of us had spoken; an answer from one was an answer for The Twins.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.

Isn't it generally known that you have to overlook flaws in people you date, to some extent? I mean, you expect them to overlook your flaws. It's only fair that you overlook some of theirs.

the more I live the more I think two people together is a miracle.

To have the luxury of passing to two goal-scorers is something I enjoy. You look forward to coming to the rink because you know you've got two finishers on your line.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.