Garry Shandling Quotes

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

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.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can't blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process.

Marriage is not easy. You have to decide to work. That's what it really comes down to: two people deciding to stay together or not.

Marriage is hard.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

If you are not willing to grow together, then the relationship will not survive.

Marriage is a beautiful institution as long as two people understand each other well and are willing to live their life together till they die.

I had a different perception of what a relationship or love is like. I was all giddy-headed and fairytale about it in my head, but it's so different. There's a lot of restraint that you've got to have, compromising in certain situations - and you've got to have a lot of respect.