#spouse

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy. ↗

— Olivia Wilde

#end #feel #good #good marriage #had

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#conjugal #desires #disappeared #even #friendship

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#different #experience #kids #spouse #your

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#continuing #deranged #feel #feeling #i

Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#bad habit #better #break #dream #going

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#get #going #me #other #parents

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#act #binds #church #domestic #eventual

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#dignity #harmony #his #i #inspiration

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#alone #plant #plants #spouse #weed

There is nothing better for your family than for you to be at your best, for you to be at your own peace, for you to be showing them in every way who you are, and what you stand for. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#children #example #family #happiness #life