Quotes About Growth In Marriage

#1. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.

Anonymous

#2. Similarly, loving spouses must repeatedly confront each other if the marriage relationship is to serve the function of promoting the spiritual growth of the partners. No marriage can be judged truly successful unless husband and wife are each other's best critics.

M. Scott Peck

#3. Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.

Marty Rubin

#4. Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners.

Tristan Taormino

#5. The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

David Letterman

#6. Love is pure and divine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Remember: you're not JUSTa fan. The whole thing falls apart without people who believe in it.

Daniel Herborn

#8. A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Joe Lhota

#10. I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.

Various

#11. There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.

Rick Cormier

#12. He didn't take any of my shit. I needed that.

C.J. English

#13. In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

Alana Stewart

#14. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.

Howard Coble

#16. After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

#18. The relationship was perfect, but I hated everything about the person I became.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#19. We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.

J.B.S. Haldane

#20. The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.

Ben Shapiro

#21. But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

Billy Joe Saunders

#22. Your peace of mind is all in your head.

Ash Lieb

#23. It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

Laura M. Brotherson

#24. Many conflicts in a marriage result from living to please self instead of living to please the Lord. These conflicts can be resolved and are actually opportunities for spiritual growth when dealt with in a biblical manner.

John C. Broger

#25. My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

Frank Carson

#26. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

Wallis Simpson

#27. To build a respectful, kind and loving relationship, begin by being respectful, kind and loving to yourself

Shya Kane

#28. Third, one who is "in love" is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. "If we have any purpose in mind when we fall in love it is to terminate our own loneliness and perhaps ensure this result through marriage.

Gary Chapman

#29. Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

Douglas Wilson

#31. Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.

Suzy Kassem

#32. Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. I'm in charge here, don't forget it, he stated. I nodded, mesmerized.

Joanna Wylde

#34. No matter how old you are or how long
or short!
you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Jim George

#35. More than just someone to lay down with, is a spirit to pray up with.

T.F. Hodge