Books Quote by John Eldredge

“Among all the disappointments and perplexities which have fallen my share in life, nothing has contributed so much to support my mind as the…

— John Adams

“The most terrible thing about marriage, I suppose, is that we know and understand each other’s weaknesses and fears as much as we know…

— Nancy Thayer

“Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.”

— Timothy Keller

“It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you…

— Elizabeth Palmer

“Never base the success of your marriage according to the expectations of others ...”

— Pastor Nancy Advincola

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“Sometimes it strengthens a marriage to see the worst and find the sweetness of happiness later.”

— Christine Merrill

“Marriage is always a hopeless idiocy for a woman who has enough of her own to live upon.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Many of the pains and efforts taken to deal with the contemporary marriage are dominated by considerations of well-being, happiness, and biology. This corresponds…

— Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig

“With a lover, a wife, when you find the worst - be it infidelity or lack of love, madness or the suicidal spark -…

— Julian Barnes

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is…

— Wallis Simpson

“We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these…

— Laura Schroff