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
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
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
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
-Gabriel García Márquez
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-André Maurois
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-Anonymous
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"
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
