John Stuart Mill Quotes

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Judging a child taking his first steps for not being able to run a marathon is shortsighted.

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

Ghosts of Marriages Past can haunt many aspects of a new relationship - your expectations of what a man should do, how you behave in conflict, your ideas of how commitment should look - they can even make your new man look untrustworthy when he's really behaving normally.

Like every other girl or woman I had imagined and visualized a totally different picture of a married life in my head. But in reality it was nothing like it. Mazhar was never there whenever I needed him. Even when I was pregnant, he was not there to support me or be happy with me.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.