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
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Ivan Doig
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
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
-H. Norman Wright
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-George Bernard Shaw
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
-Groucho Marx
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
-Warren Farrell
A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
-Anne Taylor Fleming
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
-G. K. Chesterton
