Viggo Mortensen Quotes

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

Young and older people need to learn relationships take time and effort.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

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.

Every relationship is work.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

Marriage is hard work, period.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

One of the things you learn when you get married is how you need to always work on continuing to make it better.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

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.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.'

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You've got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we're best friends on top of it, so we're very fortunate.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.