If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
Quotations
Marriage
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
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-Helen Rowland
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
-Dave Meurer
In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.
-Lucretia Mott
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
-Henry James
"The Portrait of a Lady"
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
