13211a04-b1ae-4372-af68-0ff1b2018afd quotes

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”

“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

“Marriages may be made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.”

“Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.”

“In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.”

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”

“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”

“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”

“I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”