“You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you, and then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.”
- Jamie Randall (from the movie, Love and Other Drugs)
“There are few things more frightening to a man than giving away his heart. And there are few things more comforting to a man than to know the woman he gave his heart to, will protect it with her life.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Love is always bestowed as a gift -freely, willingly, and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved, we love to love.”
-Leo Buscagalia
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
-Peter Ustinov
“Passionate sex is great. A passionate marriage filled with passionate sex…SO much better.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Enjoy the little things in life… For one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
“Keep the fire lit in your marriage and your life will be filled with warmth.”
-Fawn Weaver
“You don’t marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as a result of being married to you.”
-Richard Needham
“When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of gain, that is a lack of integrity. When you compromise your beliefs for the sake of greater understanding with your spouse, that’s called wisdom.”
-Fawn Weaver
“One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.”
-Robert Brault
“To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.”
-Ogden Nash
“Heart pounding, body sweating, hair soaked… Going for a morning run does that but leaves me a little tired. Staying in the bed with my husband a little longer yields the same result – but is a whole lot more fun.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
?”No one can go back and change how it started but a new future for any marriage can begin the moment one person begins to invest in it.”
-Fawn Weaver
“They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village.”
-Diane Sollee
“A happy marriage doesn’t mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you’ve chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.”
-Fawn Weaver
“If you live to be a hundred, I want
To live to be a hundred minus one day,
So I never have to live without you.”
-Winnie the Pooh
“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. ”
-Rabbi Pliskin
“In marriage, when we honor and celebrate each other, we’re freed up to be the best people we can be.”
-Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
“Marriage doesn’t make you happy–you make your marriage happy.”
-Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott
“There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?”
-Mary Oliver
“A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.”
-Robert Brault
“To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.”
-Marnie Reed Crowell
“Marriage is the virtuous exploration of love in its purest form and pleasure in its highest state.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Marriage is getting to have a sleepover with your best friend every night of the week.”
-Christie Cook
“A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace.”
-Darlene Schacht
“In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.”
-Anne S Swetchine
“Being loved just as you are is the greatest currency on earth. It is immeasurable in value and can never truly be repaid.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.”
-Barnett R. Brickner
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.”
-Peter De Vries
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”
-Simone Signoret
“Happiness in marriage is a moment by moment choice. A decision to love, forgive, grow and grow old together.”
-Fawn Weaver
“Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. Its the way you love your partner every day.”
-Barbara De Angelis
“One of the greatest things in life is finding someone who knows all your mistakes and still thinks you are absolutely amazing.”