When you enter into a marriage you are hopefully expecting to spend the rest of your life with your partner. All marriages come with different challenges.
Nobody ever said that marriage is easy, but the benefits of marriage surely outweigh any difficulties. It is all about spending your life by the side of the one you love and riding out the turbulent waters together.
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These Are The Best Ten Quotes That Sum up The Beauty That is Marriage.
1. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times and always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
This quote is just so perfect. It encompasses what it means to grow old with somebody you love. That life will always change a person, but marriage means that you grow and change together.
Marriage isn’t a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
It can be incredibly useful to think as the word marriage as a verb, an action word. It is something you have to physically do, to put effort into. Becoming complacent is often the worst thing for a marriage. Be active in your love for your partner and reap the rewards.
3. Make your marriage your own. Don’t look at other marriages and wish you had something else. Work to shape your marriage so that it is satisfying for both of you.
This quote reminds you to make your marriage work for you as a couple. Comparing yourselves to other can only lead to trouble. Afterall, you never know what’s going on behind closed doors.
. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. – Anne Taylor Fleming
A marriage is not always easy, it can be difficult to balance being your own person and being part of a couple. This quote reminds us of that. But just because it is difficult, does not mean it isn’t worth doing.
5. Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. – Finnish Proverb
This shows us that marriage can turn love into something even more beautiful. It perfectly encapsulates what marriage should symbolize in modern times.
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6. Marriage is like watching the colour of leaves in the fall; ever changing and more stunningly beautiful with each passing day. – Fawn Weaver
Marriages change over time and that should be celebrated and acknowledged. As we grow as people, and as couples, a marriage can become even more exciting as it develops with time. This isn’t something that should be brushed over, it should be shared.
7. Husbands too, deserve to be spoiled. Tell them, they are handsome. Tell them their efforts are appreciated, make them feel secure. If he is doing his best to treat you like a queen, do your best treat him as a king. His need to feel loved and appreciated is real.
In current times there is a lot of focus on making sure the wife is spoilt, but times, and gender roles, are changing. A marriage is all about equality and taking care of each other. It should not be one sided.
8. I married you not because I could spend a lifetime with you, but because I could not spend it without you.
This quote shows the sheer power of marriage and of love. That feeling that you couldn’t live without somebody is what most people strive for. If you’re lucky enough to find that, you’re well on your way to a lifetime of happiness.
9. A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple' comes together, it is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. – Dave Meurer
It is important to acknowledge that nobody is ever perfect and being in a happy marriage is about loving your partner’s imperfections. Everybody is human and to try to be perfect all the time is not only impossible; it is also unhealthy. By learning all about your partner, and their quirks and imperfections, you can grow together in a healthy and open way.
10. There is no such thing as a perfect marriage because it is made of imperfect people. God is the only one that is perfect and having Him in the middle of your marriage guarantees perfection in all the imperfect circumstances.
Quote number ten is all about opening up your marriage to that all important third being. If you are not a particularly religious person, the alternative is to allow faith into your relationship. Not necessarily in a religious form, but a spiritual one. Have faith in each other, that your relationship is meant to be, that you are strong and that your marriage will be a happy one.
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I want to end the article with one little bonus quote.
"The difference between an ordinary and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day & as often as possible."
It is so important to make sure you put effort into your marriage if you want it to stay strong and keep building. These quotes will hopefully allow you to reflect on your marriage, or what you want from a future marriage. Take these quotes and apply them to your daily life, you could be impressed with the outcome.
Classic Literary Quotes
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love, except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams." —"100 Love Sonnets" by Pablo Neruda
"To love another person is to see the face of God." —"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything." —F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There is only one happiness in life: To love and be loved." —George Sand
"when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her" —E. E. Cummings
"Love her. The way you do just the one time." —"Red Wind" by Raymond Chandler
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." —Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Shakespearean Quotes
"God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts in one." —"King Henry V", Act V by William Shakespeare
"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet." —"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare
Movie Quotes
"If you're a bird, I'm a bird." —The Notebook
"I've come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is, and always will be, yours." —Sense and Sensibility
"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with." —Juno
"It doesn't matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other." —Good Will Hunting
"If you're not willing to sound stupid, you're not worthy of falling in love." —A Lot Like Love
"People do fall in love. People do belong to each other, because that's the only chance that anyone's got for true happiness." —Breakfast at Tiffany's
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back." —Meet Joe Black
"I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married, we marry one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think 'I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl.'" —Blue Valentine
"I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her. So I stopped. I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer. Then I just let myself go." —The Great Gatsby
"This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime." —Bridges of Madison County
"I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself." —Original Sin
"You need to be kissed. Often. And by someone who knows how." —Gone with the Wind
"It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew it. It was like magic." —Sleepless in Seattle
Proverbs From Around the World
"It is love that makes the impossible, possible." —Indian proverb
"Where there is love, there is no darkness." —Burundian proverb
"Let your love be like the misty rain, coming softly but flooding the river." —Liberian proverb
"There is no cure for love other than marriage." —Irish proverb
"He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one." —Japanese proverb
"A life without love is like a year without summer." —Lithuanian proverb
Biblical Quotes
"No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage..." —"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt thy love." —"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
"Two are better than one." —Ecclesiastes 4:9
"I found the one whom my soul loves." —Song of Solomon 3:4
"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends." —1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Follow the way of love." —1 Corinthians 14:1
Ephesians 4:32 (American Standard Version)
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Meaning: Build a compassionate and loving relationship. Forgive each other. God so loved you that he sent his son Christ as a sacrifice for you.
Colossians 3:14 (ASV)
...and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.
Meaning: Place unconditional love, above all things.
1 John 4:18-19 (ASV)
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love, because he first loved us.
Meaning: Love is the greatest of all. God proved his love for us by sacrificing his only son for our sins.
Let all that ye do be done in love.
Meaning: Do everything in love.
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.
Meaning: John tells us that Jesus said God’s greatest commandment is to love each other.
1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (ASV)
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Meaning: No mater how gifted or great you are, if you don’t have love you are nothing.
1 Peter 4:8 (ESV)
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Meaning: Always choose to love one another, because love conquers all.
Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Meaning: When it comes to love, humble yourself, be gentle, and be patient.
Philippians 1:3 (NIV)
I thank my God every time I remember you.
Meaning: Thank God every day for the spouse he blessed you with.
Ephesians 5:28 (ASV)
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Meaning: A husband must love his wife as much as he loves himself.
Ephesians 5:31 (ASV)
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
Meaning: When you marry, you become one. Let none come between you.
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Meaning: A virtuous, loving, and faithful woman is a treasure above all others.
Mark 10:6-9 (WEB)
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, and the two will become one flesh so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.
Meaning: As marriage under God decrees that you are one, let no mere mortal separate your sacred union.
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Meaning: God created us for companionship.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (ESV)
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him–a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Meaning: God wants us to be in union. He created us to be together, and those who are a pair have the ability to help each other up. A spouse can help another spouse in areas that they lack. Additionally, the "threefold cord" is a callout to the Holy Trinity–the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. However, another "threefold cord" could be marriage–two spouses and God at the forefront.
Ruth 1:16 (ASV)
...whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Meaning: When used as a ceremony vow, you are entirely committing to each other.
Song of Solomon 2:16 (ASV)
My beloved is mine, and I am his.
Meaning: You are mine and I am yours, completely.
Genesis 45:8 (ESV)
So it was not you who sent me here, but God.
Meaning: You are telling your partner that your union was planned and heavenly sent by God.
Romans 5:5 (ESV)
...God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Meaning: The love you and your partner have for each other is the love God poured into your hearts.
Song of Solomon 2:3-16 (ASV)
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Meaning: Your marriage is a re-birth, and the two of you are now one.
Corinthians 13: 1-8,13 (ASV)
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away...When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things...But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Meaning: If you don't have love, you have nothing. Of the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love; love is everything in life.
Genesis 2:18-24 (King James Version)
Meaning: Genesis is the story of God's creation of the world and everything in it, including Adam, the first man. God didn’t want Adam to be lonely, so he created Eve from Adam's rib.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (ASV)
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Meaning: Do everything in its own time. Marriage is the time to commit to your love fully.
John 2:1-11 (ASV)
And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: and Jesus also was bidden, and his disciples, to the marriage. And when the wine failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. And Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Now there were six waterpots of stone set there after the Jews’ manner of purifying, containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the ruler of the feast. And they bare it. And when the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and knew not whence it was (but the servants that had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast calleth the bridegroom, and saith unto him, Every man setteth on first the good wine; and when men have drunk freely, then that which is worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of his signs did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Meaning: Jesus and his mother Mary attended a wedding in Cana of Galilee. When the guests had consumed all of the wine, Mary urged Jesus to perform his first miracle of changing water into wine. This "second" wine was so good; it surprised the guests because the custom was to serve the best wine first and the lesser quality wine last.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Meaning: As the verse says, God knows the plans He has for you. He knew you before you were born, and His plans for your future are immeasurable (prosperity, hope, and a future). When seeking guidance, always remember that God is by your side and He has a greater purpose for your life. And for marriage, He has planned this union and will guide you through all your ups and downs.
Proverbs 3:5-8 (ESV)
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Meaning: Seek God in all you do and place him first in your marriage. Don't let the troubles of the world impact your union, but turn to God and He'll see you through anything.
Psalm 23:1-4 (ESV)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff. they comfort me.
Meaning: God is your guiding light. He will lead you through the ups and downs of your marriage, but with God at the forefront, your marriage will always prevail.