Eric Bana Quotes

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

I don't want a honeymoon with you. I want a good marriage.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

It's mutual respect and love that are important, not a wedding.

The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It's less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it's 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

Marriage is not all rainbows and butterflies; you have to give in to your partner's whims every now and then, and that's a two-way street.

Marriage has given me the gift of compassion.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I think it's important to remember that you go into something like marriage knowing that you don't know very much about it at all. But I do look at the marriage of my mother and stepdad, and what makes it work for them is that it's a team effort.