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
There is a French saying; Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love.
-De Finod
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habit and then complain that he's not the man she married?
-Barbra Streisand
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
-Michel De Montaigne
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
-Gary D. Chapman
"The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate"
