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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”

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

“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

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

“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

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

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

“Love the family! Defend and promote it as the basic cell of human society; nurture it as the prime sanctuary of life. Give great care to the preparation of engaged couples and be close to young married couples, so that they will be for their children and the whole community an eloquent testimony of God's love.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.”