Joel Osteen Quotes

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

Living together is an art.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

I get along with everybody.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don't have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise.