Quotes About Marriage Nicholas Sparks

#1. Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.

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#2. There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

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#3. This isn't Sex and the City, and life isn't a Nicholas Sparks novel. The best kind of love is one that is calming on the spirit, easy on the heart, fulfilling and completing.

Hope Alcocer

#4. She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

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#5. I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
"Is there something wrong with that?"
"Absolutely.

Ned Vizzini

#6. We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#7. People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other

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#8. Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

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#9. Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.

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#10. Marriage isn't what people think it is. People want to believe that every marriage is this perfect balance,

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#11. People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it

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#13. A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

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#14. So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me ... everyday.

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#15. Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.

Christopher Gorham

#16. Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

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#17. As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be.

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#18. Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth's resources and living processes.

Vandana Shiva

#20. One reason people make bad decisions is they don't have a good decision as one of their options.

Dave Ramsey

#21. Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

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#22. Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply - fruits and vegetables.

Benjamin Ward Richardson

#23. He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

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#24. A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.

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#25. Not alone, echoed in my mind. Go. I'll bring you back. (Ford to Rachel)

Kim Harrison