#marriage

The great success of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ↗

— Sir Harold Nicholson

#marriage #success #inspirational

Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗

— Angelo M. Swinson

#inspirational-quotes #marriage-advice #relationships #self-help #inspirational

Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne’s rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

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Sex is not about genitalia. It’s about relationship. When God said ‘the two shall become one flesh,’ he didn’t mean it only physically. ↗

— Sheila Wray Gregoire

#christian-living #christian-marriage #inspirational #marriage #inspirational

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. ↗

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

#love #marriage #romance #inspirational

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #empowerment #freedom #happiness #husbands

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. ↗

— Milton Berle

#forgiveness