1. “ If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” Winnie the Pooh

2. “ Pray together – even on your knees when needed! If prayer is missing from a marriage, it will be very difficult to survive.” Joe and Neusa Barbosa, married 30 years

3. “ Find something you can share with your spouse, like a ministry you’re both passionate about, a sport, a Bible class, etc. When life pulls you in different directions you’ll always be brought back to that one thing you share together.” Randy and Deb Buhrow, married 5 years

4. “ All strengths have an equal and opposite weakness. When tension comes, focus on the strengths. Your spouse ‘is’ what you focus on.” Dan and Carmel Jennings, married 30 years

5. “ Marriage is like a garden. One must cultivate it (it takes effort!) to keep the weeds of selfishness, anger and unforgiveness out. Then your marriage will be beautiful.” Bruce and Delores Winger, married 55 years

6. “ Don’t underestimate the power of a good hug.” Dave and Jenny Csinos, married 4 months

7. “ Marriage is not finding the ‘right’ person; it is being the ‘right’ person.” David Illman, married to Doris for 35 years

8. “ Selflessness makes a marriage last a lifetime.” Randy and Deb Buhrow, married 5 years

9. “ Read the Scriptures and pray together daily, to stay on the save wavelength spiritually.” Doris Illman, married to David for 35 years

10. “ Have an attitude of forgiveness; without forgiveness, a marriage will never survive.” Joe and Neusa Barbosa, married 30 years

11. “ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” Ursula K. LeGuin

12. “ Love accepts people as they are; love can take insults without ill will.” Erwin W. Lutzer

13. “ Advice for a long and relatively contented marriage: know that divorce or separation without a valid reason is not an option.” Joe and Neusa Barbosa, married 30 years

14. “ Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens

15. “ Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.” Og Mandino

16. “ Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.” Peter Ustinov

17. “ Alas, oh, love is dead! How could it perish thus? No one has cared for it: It simply died of frost.” Angelus Silesius, 1624-1677

18. “ Have the attitude that we need to participate 100% and not keep tabs on how much the other spouse is doing.” Joe and Neusa Barbosa, married 30 years

19. “ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” William Shakespeare

20. “ Of all the earthly music, that which reaches farthest into heavens is the beating of a truly loving heart.” Henry Ward Beecher

21. “ A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of ‘unresolvables.’ ” James Dobson

22. “ Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.” Leo Buscaglia

23. “ Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

24. “ Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.” Henry Ward Beecher

25. “ Just because I love you doesn't mean I have to like you right now.” From the movie How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days

26. “ For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.” Bill Cosby

27. “ Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is ‘T-I-M-E.’ ” Rick Warren

28. “ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.” Andre Maurois

29. “ Express by word and deed your thanks and appreciation continually for your spouse.” David Illman, married to Doris for 35 years

30. “ Our covenant of marriage is a three-way commitment between husband, wife & God. You cannot love in your own strength. As we seek to please Christ, we will love and forgive each other as He empowers us to do so. A chord of three strands is not easily broken.” Paul and Nel Slater, married 13 years

31. “ When you look at before and after photos of people after 50 years or so of marriage, they have lost their innocence, but they are much wiser. Ruth and I don’t look the same as when we were first married. Marriage is a growth experience. Among other things, a lasting marriage depends on the depth of the mutual commitment beyond ‘I do’, to grow together.” Ruth and Harold Sherk, married 55 years

32. “ Romance your spouse – hold hands, kiss often, cuddle, remember all the little things you did before you got married.” Dan and Carmel Jennings, married 30 years

33. “ Set time side to spend together, otherwise husband and wife will grow apart.” Joe and Neusa Barbosa, married 30 years

34. “ Be willing to give up your ‘rights,’ and serve your spouse.” Doris Illman, married to David for 35 years