Quotes About Growth

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were not one tree and not two.

Even great marriages have terrible years, but don't give up. You will look back on this as a prelude to something richer and fuller than you can ever dream.

Marriage is the interview that never ends.

Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

Marriage is the best of all evils.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

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.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.