L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

My idea about being in a relationship is like it's a whole other form of creation.

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage.

The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.

You know," I told him on our wedding night, "I'm just as much me when I'm with you, as I am without you." And because Hardy understood what I meant, he pulled me into his arms, against his heart.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

[Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.

Sex is a fact of life...and while it may lead to abuses...no words need be spoken...for people to know that the subject is one pleasantly interwoven in all human activities and involves the very substance of creation itself.

The only thing keeping two people together should be love. Not legalities.

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

But I'm not any better at relationships than you are. We'll find our way together, even if we're fumbling around in the dark for a while.

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.

If she could find a man who could feel and laugh as well as desire, she might even think about thinking about marriage.

The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and you have experienced all the joys and all the miseries, and still you decide to be with the person, then marriage is okay. Because marriage is only a legal arrangement, it cannot make anything more beautiful than it is. It can only make it ugly, it cannot beautify it. Once it is settled legally, once you start taking each other for granted, things will start going down rather than rising high.