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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
-Honoré De Balzac
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
