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
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.
-Anne Lamott "Joe Jones"
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-Sacha Guitry
You'll be happy if you'll remember that men don't change much. Women do. Women adapt themselves, and if you think that means they lose their individuality, you're wrong. Show me a happy marriage and I'll show you a clever woman.
-Elizabeth Cadell
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-Ambrose Bierce
Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate.
-Barnett R. Brickner
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
Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
-J. Courtney Sullivan
"Commencement"
