Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."

- Peter De Vries

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again."

- Judith Viorst

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations."

- Theodore Bikel

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

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

- Doug Larson

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

- Oscar Wilde

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly."

- Sam Keen

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. "

- Erich Fromm

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create."

- Roland Allen

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both."

- Brian Celio

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage."

- Robert Anderson

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path."

- Phyllis McGinley

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."

- Mignon McLaughlin

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process."

- Rowan Williams

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels."

- Nicholas Sparks

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry."

- Tom Mullen

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

- Bill Cosby

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

- Gertrude Stein

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble."

- Raymond Hull

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

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

- Mignon McLaughlin

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

- Andre Maurois

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."

- Greta Scacchi

Is Romance Enough?

A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime

"To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more subtlety, flexibility, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor or emotion."

- Leo Buscaglia