Whether you have been married for twenty years or for five minutes, every marriage can use a relationship boost from time to time to remind us of what we have, what we want, and how to nurture it.
Because marriage is a long-term commitment, you are bound to go through some challenging times with your spouse. It can be hard to remain grateful, focused, and appreciative of your spouse over that amount of time and through your tribulations.
To help remind you, motivate, and inspire you we have compiled our favorite 11 quotes to help you to a better marriage.
We C“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
– Theodore Hesburgh
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”
– Sir Harold George Nicolson
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, to hold the offence up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.”
-Gary Chapman
“Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.”
-Sheri L. Dew
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
-Barbara De Angelis
“No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.”
-Unknown
“True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves.”
-Jeffery R. Holland
“I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.
I’ve learned that there are people who love you dearly,
but just don’t know how to show it.
I’ve learned that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, it doesn’t mean they don’t love you all they can.
I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends
if we understand that friends change.
I’ve learned that two people can look at the exact same thing
and see something totally different.
I’ve learned that just because two people argue,
it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue,
it doesn’t mean they do.”
-Omer Washington
“Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of becoming passionate friends.”
-Harville Hendrix
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