From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.
-Baal Shem Tov
Quotations
Marriage
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy
"Far from the Madding Crowd"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
-Nicholas Sparks
"True Believer"
If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain and instead seeing a person's soul.
-Shannon L. Alder
"300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before marriage"
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
"The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
