40 reflections on marriage full of teachings and affection

Marriage is a bond of love that cannot be broken. It’s affection and complicity that you can’t find anywhere.

Karyne Santiago

In a marriage, two people need to give themselves equally to the relationship. If there is more or less surrender by one of the parties, the couple is subject to failure. One will have to bear the unequal yoke to sustain love.

Karyne Santiago

The beauty and depth of marriage bonds are the result of a genuine surrender of oneself to the other that fills the heart with an endless joy teaching us about hope, love and patience.

Karyne Santiago

Marriage is a junction of souls, hearts, cultures, ideas, families… Bringing two people together goes far beyond parties and signatures.

Karyne Santiago

A successful marriage is not a gift; it’s an achievement.

Ann Landers

When you’re with a person and neither of you feel the need to have and/or be supermen or superwomen, but at the same time feel like making your life better, get married!

Marriage, in addition to love, demands empathy and affective responsibility. If you don’t know what that is, don’t get married!

Karyne Santiago

I always dreamed of getting married, dressing in white, joining the love of my life… Despite knowing that there is no such thing as the famous “happily ever after”, next to my beloved I feel fulfilled.

Karyne Santiago

Marriage is not the union of two perfect people, who were born for each other, but the union of two people who understand each other, who accept each other, and who only out of love want to always be better for each other.

Augusto Branco

The secret to a good marriage is understanding the needs of the other and knowing how to respect them. Love is delivery!

Karyne Santiago

Marriage must incessantly fight a monster that devours everything: habit.

Honoré de Balzac

Complete my joy by having the same way of thinking, the same love, one spirit and one attitude.

Philippians 2:2

To marry is to be born again, with a new soul, generated by love.

Karyne Santiago

Life next to the one you love is light and smooth, regardless of any difficulty or conflict. Marriage is a natural consequence of those who want to relive this grace every day.

Karyne Santiago

Individuality is fundamental, but harmony is needed to build a good relationship, to tune in to the same rhythm, to match goals… This is the secret of marriage.

Karyne Santiago

There is no perfect relationship, differences exist to complete, not to separate.

The near-perfect marriage is the union of two freedoms. Happy are those couples who, in pain, think more about each other than about themselves.

Father Zezinho

Committing to another person is serious business. It’s learning to give voice to another person, to give up some things when necessary, it’s caring for the other and making yourself available to water the garden of love daily.

Karyne Santiago

I don’t live a perfect marriage, I live a sincere relationship, full of love, surrender, conflicts, joys and respect.

Karyne Santiago

There’s nothing in this world like the love of married women, it’s just that couples themselves don’t know it.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is mutual respect: mutual respect of those who agree in such a will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Getting married is not settling down. It only accommodates those who let love die, and love only dies if it is not cared for.

Karyne Santiago

Love lives in time because it leaves traces. Passion is forgotten, and love isn’t even burying ends.

Fabricio Carpinejar

Early marriages, late reflexes.

Dirceu Azevedo

Love is more beautiful for its imperfections and for the history of overcoming them.

Karyne Santiago

Love does not consist in looking at each other, but forward, together, in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness in a marriage is found in the appreciation of love. The more care, the more joys bloom. Otherwise, the relationship becomes barren ground.

Karyne Santiago

Marriage is the most valuable bet in the life of a human being whose prize promises eternal happiness.

Karyne Santiago

The best friend will probably also have the best wife; because the good couple rests on the good talent of friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No marriage survives the despondency of the soul.

Rational or irrational, it doesn’t matter what love is, as long as it stays lit in marriage.

Karyne Santiago

Love is what we make of it, and marriage is the fruit of it. Build your relationship your way. The only rules are: have respect and be happy.

Karyne Santiago

Marriage is the miracle that turns a kiss for pleasure into responsibility.

Helen Rowland

Mutual trust is a bond that strengthens the relationship. When jealousy leads to a fight, it’s love that takes the first blow!

A marriage does not last the time of our days. A marriage, the fruit of true feeling, does not know what time is, it has the essence of eternity… It lasts beyond life!

Augusto Branco

For where love is, there our heart will also be.

Luke 12:34

Life together will always have its imperfections and conflicts, and it is how the couple reacts to them that determines the success of the marriage.

Karyne Santiago

The happy couple that recognizes each other in love defies the universe and time; enough, it realizes the absolute.

Simone de Beauvoir

When problems arise, when love cools down and difficulties set in, rewind the tape and remember the beginning. Everyday life makes us forget the good times, but when we open the box of love, everything dissolves.

Karyne Santiago

More than love, companionship and respect are needed within a relationship. Be convinced of this and you will have a healthy and lasting marriage.

Karyne Santiago