“Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.” WayWritingQualityMarriageMarriedPatternsListsSpouseBeing MarriedPositive Marriage Author:Zelig Pliskin
“Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members.” MayChildrenPersonsLongPerfectMarriageSupportMembersMarriedRemainsComplexesPatternsContractsJointsSanctionsProcreationPerfect Marriage Author:William Batchelder Greene
“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.” WayGivingPersonsMarriageDemandPatternsPartnersSelfishFlexibleUnselfishUnselfishnessGiving Way Book:A Severed Head Source: A Severed Head
“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.” LoveLifeActionRomanceThreeLove IsMarriagePatternsDevotionBedtimeThree WordsInspirational Tattoo Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.” ThinkingHappinessThreeCoursesFriendshipMarriageGratitudeEndurePatternsInsightfulFormulasFinestHappy MarriageThree WordsPersonal Happiness Author:Thomas S. Monson
“For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.” AgeMarriageHellPatternsContraryBlissStrifeCelestialDiscordWedlock Book:Henry VI, Part One Source: Henry VI, Part One
“The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.” MenStillsFormMarriageReturnDisciplineCivilizationThousandFemaleInstitutionsRewardsMalesPatternsVarietyConsiderationStrainSpontaneityReceptivity Author:Margaret Mead