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 more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
-Henry David Thoreau
How can two people love each other, create children together, cohabitation, build a life together, and then end up hating each other in the end.
-Zane
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-Oscar Wilde
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.
-Debbie Macomber
"Mrs. Miracle"
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Letters and Papers from Prison"
