"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number."
"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."
Doug Larson on Anniversary"We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
W. Somerset Maugham on Anniversary"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
Martin Luther on Anniversary"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin on Anniversary"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
George Bernard Shaw on Anniversary"I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging."
"I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change."
"I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is."
"I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change."
"I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be."