Paul Tripp shares this Leo Tolstoy quote in What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
Leo Tolstoy:
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
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After 37 years of marriage, some people ask me, “How did you do it?” My answer is always the same – “Low expectations”. 🙂
A great quote and an example that speaking with wisdom and acting wisely are two different things. See:
Phillip Yancey, What’s So Amazing About Grace, Zondervan, 1997, p. 85
and
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/24/books/more-war-than-peace.html?pagewanted=1