"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

  ~Mignon McLaughlin

"Chains do not hold a marriage together.  It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years."  ~Simone Signoret

"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."

  ~Emily Kimbrough

"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."

  ~Doug Larson

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."

  ~Blaise Pascal

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new." 

 ~Ursula K. Le Guin

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." 

 ~Robert Heinlein

"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."

~Laurence Marks

"The art of love... is largely the art of persistence." 

 ~Albert Ellis

"The most critical factor in our ultimate happiness and success is the quality of our relationships. Since most relationships are less than creative, most can be improved upon."

 ~Wendy                     

  Founder of Creative Relationship Center