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
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
The true love is unconditional.
Marriage is a conditional bond.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
"Middlesex"
Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
-Diana Gabaldon
"An Echo in the Bone"
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
If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.
-Lisa Tawn Bergren
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
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
