Jim Cole Quotes

Love is hard.

I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry.

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 have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

Love is a lot more complicated than people think.

A relationship is just a giant grey thing. Just beautiful and also frustrating. And it involves everything.

All I can say is marriage is hard.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

The best proof of love is trust.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

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

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

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.

Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.