Brittany Murphy Quotes

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

I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the most important thing. It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong; it is a one plus one equals more than two.

Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

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

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

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

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

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

Just laughing a lot would be the most important thing in a relationship to me. And a smattering of trust. A dollop of laughter - and an icing of trust.

When I get married, I think what matters is you should be happy with the person you are living with.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

Every marriage is different, but the most important factor in a strong relationship is the love and harmony between the couple.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

I have a very intense marriage.

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.

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.

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.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.