Stone Gossard Quotes

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

Marriage is hard.

There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.

In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

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

Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.