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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

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

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

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

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

“My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“The best proof of love is trust.”

“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.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”

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

“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart”

“If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.”

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”