Happy Spouse Quotes

“Because revelations of systemic deception erode our most basic, default expectation of good faith, they play an outsize role in producing a crisis of authority. Each exposure of previously secret misdeeds-steroid use, Ponzi schemes, rigged intelligence-produces an acute and debilitating psychological effect. Vertigo sets in, similar to that experienced by a spouse who, after decades of what he thought was a happy, loyal marriage, discovers his wife has been cheating all along. Suddenly we realize we live in a world entirely more depraved than the one we thought we inhabited.”

— Christopher L. Hayes

“Loving she realises is a verb. It is an act. It is not enough to say you love someone, and then forget about them, or trust a relationship will stay strong simply because you share a house or children or a life.
Loving requires acts of love. It requires thinking of your spouse, doing things for them to make them happy. It requires acting in loving ways, even when you are tired, or bogged down with work, or so stressed you are waking up every night with a jaw sore from grinding your teeth.
They forgot to do that, she now knows. They forgot to love each other. They expected love to continue, without putting any work into it, and today she knows this is why her marriage failed.”

— Jane Green

“Creating a happy marriage begins with choosing the right spouse.”

— Fawn Weaver

“If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one ... could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete happiness, even when I suffer something for my beloved Spouse.”

— Brian Kolodiejchuk

“There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty.”

— Brandi Carlile

“A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.”

— Don Fraser

“There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.”

— Sherry Thomas

“Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.”

— Billy Graham

“It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.”

— Florence Henderson

“A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable.”

— Cindy Meehl

“Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...”

— Dennis Prager

“It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.”

— Zsa Zsa Gabor