National Spouses Day 2018: Quotes, Facts For Celebrating Love And Marriage

Due to our busy schedules, we often forget to celebrate our spouses and their immense support and contribution in our lives. If you are one of those people who forget special anniversaries, fret not, here is your chance to make up for it.

Thursday is National Spouses Day, an unofficial holiday celebrated annually on Jan. 26.

According to the Census Bureau, more than two million people get married in the United States every year and 17 percent of the total population say “I do” more than once with about 170,000 American couples belonging to the same sex.

No matter which category you fall into, celebrating National Spouses Day should be more about letting your special someone know they are loved, appreciated and cared for.

So, in addition to sending gifts, flowers, and chocolates and spending time with them, go through this list of famous quotes courtesy of Goodreads and Happy Wives’ Club about love and married life, which will only help strengthen your bond with your soulmate.

1. “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.” – Shannon L. Alder

2. “The greatest marriages are built on teamwork. A mutual respect, a healthy dose of admiration, and a never-ending portion of love and grace.” – Fawn Weaver

3. “That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore” - Micheal J. Sullivan

4. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close." - Pablo Neruda

5. "When we got married I told my wife 'If you leave me, I'm going with you.' And she never did." -James Fineous McBride

6. "Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." - Ursula K. Le Guin

7. “Do not seek for the best partner, but seek for the person who makes you a better version of yourself.” - Abhijit Naskar

8. “Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.” - Shannon L. Alder

9. "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person." - Mignon McLaughlin

10. "The virtues of your partner completes the goodness in you." - Christian Hunt