Alex Grey Quotes

You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.

If you are not willing to grow together, then the relationship will not survive.

I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

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.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work.

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

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

I don't think there is any set formula to have a good relationship.

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.

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

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

This relationship is going to be built on trust.

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

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.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.