The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Interpretation
Successful marriages involve managing challenges by keeping perspectives balanced and not overreacting to minor issues.
This quote by Harold Nicolson emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy perspective in a marriage. It suggests that couples should not blow small problems out of proportion but instead view them as mere incidents that can be managed, thus fostering a resilient and harmonious relationship.
In practice
During a wedding speech, to highlight the importance of perspective in marriage.
... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist.
This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.
I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.
You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
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