Min Jin Lee Quotes

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

All my six husbands married me for different reasons.

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

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

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.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

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.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married, stay married, fall in love, how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

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.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.

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

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

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

We don’t want to abolish marriage, but we want marriage to be founded on what it was made for, mutual love and respect, and when there is none left or when it vanishes, so shall the marriage vanish. In short, love and respect shall be the only bonds that keep man and wife together, and when they are broken so shall the marriage end.

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