Gisele Bundchen Quotes

We have this rule in our marriage, there's no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

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

Perhaps my problem in marriage - and it is the problem of many women - was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.

Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it's 75-25, sometimes it's 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that's how you support each other.

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

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and I realize that we'll always be holding each other's hand.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

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

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.

Tia and I have been together for 10 years. Our relationship is not just something that happened overnight. She was with me when I moved to California. I had nothing, and she was established, who had all this money, but she didn't care. That's how I knew she was real.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.