Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

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.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marriage is a beautiful institution as long as two people understand each other well and are willing to live their life together till they die.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

I have a very intense marriage.

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

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.