The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.