“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” –Leo Tolstoy, writer.

“Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.”—Fredrick Buechner, theologian.

“We love because it is the only true adventure.”—Nikki Giovanni, poet.

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”—Morrie Schwartz, author.

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”—Pearl S. Buck, novelist.

“Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith, is also of little love.”—Erich Fromm, psychologist.

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”—C.S. Lewis, theologian.

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”—Mark Twin, writer.

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”—Elizabeth Bowen, novelist.

“There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends.”—Homer, poet.