Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

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.

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

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

I feel there's always time for relationship.

Relationships need time and commitment.

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

It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Every relationship has its complications.

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.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

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.

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

I've been through a marriage, and I'm still very fond of my ex-husband; but if I've learned anything, it's that relationships are about compromise.

I think to make any relationship work it just takes a tremendous amount of effort and accepting of one another.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

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

Part of my purpose in my books has been to tell the complete story of a relationship and a marriage, not just to end with 'happily ever after,' leaving the protagonists at the altar or in bed... I wanted to show some of the complicated business of actually living a successful marriage.

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.