Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of the beginning of an eternal courtship. ... Love can be starved to death as literally as the body that receives no sustenance. Love feeds upon kindness and courtesy"

Work on your relationships... Relationships need renewal or they die.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

That is how our marriage is working so well. My secret of happiness is keeping my contact to the minimum.

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

There is nothing unnatural about kissing. If more husbands would learn from the stage and pictures just how to kiss, and then go home and practice on their wives, there would be happier homes and fewer divorces.

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?

Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.’ And this means…?’ Well’, she said. ‘It’s interesting, isn’t it?

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.

Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.

This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.

It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

Kiss me with your eyes.

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

What does open us is sharing our vulnerabilities. Sometimes we see a couple who has done this difficult work over a lifetime. In the process, they have grown old together. We can sense the enormous comfort, the shared quality of ease between these people. It is beautiful, and very rare. Without this quality of openness and vulnerability, partners don't really know each other; they are one image living with another image.

Let's all get married. There is nothing more beautiful than two people who love each other and commit to marriage