Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
by Harville Hendrix
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
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Marriage Sayings
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
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You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Love your spouse as they are,
and forgive them everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Ultimately Sayings
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side
of every fear is a freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Practice Sayings
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I practice keen awareness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Consider adopting the ongoing practice of zero-based gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
The practice of forgiveness is our most important
contribution to the healing of the world.
- Marianne Williamson
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus
The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Practice non-action. Work without doing.
- Lao Tzu
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Today Is My Day To Practice Whimsey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great part of courage is the courage
of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inner peace can be reached
only when we practice forgiveness ...
letting go of the past,
and correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have;
that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
- Ernest Holmes
Becoming Sayings
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
In silence you hear who you are becoming.
You create yourself.
- Jewel
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
If I seem to boast more than is becoming,
my excuse is that I brag
for humanity rather than for myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Passionate Sayings
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Friends Sayings
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friends are born, not made.
- Henry Adams
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
I get by with a little help from my friends.
- John Lennon
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
- Mencius
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us,
as the confidence of their help.
- Epicurus
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Truly great friends are hard to find,
difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
- Anonymous
Friends are like bras:
close to your heart and there for support.
- Anonymous
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
- Anonymous
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.
- Anonymous
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