Candace Cameron Bure Quotes

All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: "We worked hard at it.

To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.

I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time.

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

... I think I know the secret to a long and happy marriage - just choose someone you can't live without.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

Marriage is forever. It's like cement.

You know, if a relationship has gone on for five or six years, that couple is not having as much sex as they were at the beginning of the relationship. In a lot of marriages, the sex stops altogether. So that's a very common thing, even if they still like each other.

How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.

I've loved you for as long as I can remember, and I'm going to love you for the rest of my life.

Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

I've been married for 10 years and, you know, it's hard, you spruce it up and you go places. How do you spruce up anything? Artificially. You go places and do things.

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.