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My dear sister, if Judas (from Jesus church) had come to you and proposed marriage to you, would you have refused him? You make a big big biiiiiig mistake not to ask God in prayer before choosing a wife /Husband AND RECEIVING A DEFINITE ANSWER FROM HIM.Are you still thinking "Unbeliever" means people who are not in the message church?Church was indeed a kaboooooooooom!
— Mary Tornyenyor
the two shall become oneMany at times we think that when the word says the two shall become one, it has to do with only a husband and his wife. It is way beyond our imagination, we have to be one with our Lord and God before even being one with your wife or siblings. Like a precious brother said one day: " people are arguing on the text but the context cannot be argued about " why? Because people think they know the text but they fail to know the context which is the spiritual understanding behind the text. The church is always arguing about the text, the Doctrine and so on, whilst the Bride is being impregnated in the secret place( her heart) then she will have a change of mind that will produce her husband again in physical form. May God help us to understand the God we claim to worship. You cannot worship God in Spirit if you don't have the truth, neither will you understand the truth if you don't have The Holy Ghost. Not a sensation or a feeling but the very seed, germ of Christ in your spiritual womb(Heart). Then if you have that life, you will do like The disciples did, baptising in Jesus-Christ's name instead of titles: father, son and Holy Ghost like the churches do think they have the truth. The truth is found only in them that are humble to unlearn to be able to learn. Just like brother Paul humbled Himself after being convinced that Jesus-Christ is not just the son of God but God Almighty Himself(Acts9,1-6). Without unity, no one will be raptured because the carnal( unbeliever) will always fight the spiritual (The Word). Shalom God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.--- Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York
— Anna Godbersen, Envy
When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Life is enrich with much love
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love awakens spirit of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.
— Shannon L. Alder
Opinions of others may temporary influence your decisions.But you ought to follow your own inner voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My ears interpreted a mix of nearby voices as calm, friendly, ordinary chatter. With that as background noise, I enjoyed the silent attention of my mate. The way his hand brushed softly over every inch of my bare skin tempted my eyelids to close and my mind to wander, but I kept focused, not wanting to miss a moment of admiring this beautiful man and his seductive, wild look. I felt a flood of emotion set in, born from absolute, interminable love for him. I wished for the voices to cease, for time to halt, for the moment we were living to replay over and over and over again perpetually. The world could have its gain and glory, its vengeance and victories. All I wanted was the enduring love and attention of this man who most assuredly was my soulmate.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.
— Auliq Ice
It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.
— Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Over the years I have written many a letter for the wedding of one of the brothers and preached many a wedding sermon. The chief characteristic of such occasions essentially rested in the fact that, in the face of the "last" times (I do not mean this to sound quite so apocalyptic), someone dares to take a step of such affirmation of the earth and its future. It was then always very clear to me that a person could take this step as a Christian truly only from within a very strong faith and on the basis of grace. For here in the midst of the final destruction of all things, one desires to build; in the midst of a life lived from hour to hour and from day to day, one desires a future; in the midst of being driven out from the earth, one desires a bit of space; in the midst of the widespread misery, one desires some happiness. And the overwhelming thing is that God says yes to this strange longing, that here God consents to our will, whereas it usually meant to be just the opposite.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Marriage is a lot like a roller coaster. You have extreme highs and you can have some pretty extreme lows, but the ride is worth it.
— Teresa Collins, Live LIFE in All Caps: The Teresa Collins Story
Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
— August Strindberg, Tjänstekvinnans son
If you change your dance steps you will change the dance.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
Love is the key to all human hearts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God’s voice is always consistent with His Word.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
Wisdom from God brings peace and assurance to your heart.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
Acceptance is a conscious choice to receive your spouse as God made him or her.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
God can renew your marriage and transform it into something better than you can imagine.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
Being connected to Jesus is what gives us life. He is the Life-Giver. The life-giving joy, power, and purpose for marriage flow from the One who created us to be in relationship with each other. Apart from Him, we can’t do anything.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
To experience intimacy in marriage, both partners need to feel safe.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
You don’t want emotional walls to separate you from your spouse
—  you need walls of safety to surround your relationship.
Keeping your heart open provides the opportunity for greater intimacy.
— Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life Giving Marriage: How to Build a Relationship That Lasts
Family is your most reliable source of support in any situation because love from your family is unconditional.
— Auliq Ice
Love is the greatest strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
No buddy is perfect
— Saji Ijiyemi
The bond of husband to his wife is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He knew taht many of his compatriots avoided marriage at all costs. They saw matrimony as an annoyance, a wife as another person who would nag and prod. But when he repeated his vows, he heard "as long as we both shall life" and he hoped.
— Courtney Milan, The Duchess War
The bond of love between wonderful souls is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never advise a man against his wife or a wife against his husband. When they come together again you will be the archenemy. When they separate, the fault will all be yours
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely
—  you do know someone entirely.
If you don’t capture the moments, it will be gone forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
I don't want to be married anymore. In daylight hours, I refused that thought, but at night it would consume me. What a catastrophe. How could I be such a criminal jerk as to proceed this deep into a marriage, only to leave it? We'd only just bought this house a year ago. Hadn't I wanted this nice house? Hadn't I loved it? So why was I haunting its halls every night now, howling like Medea? Wasn't I proud of all we'd accumulated—the prestigious home in the Hudson Valley, the apartment in Manhattan, the eight phone lines, the friends and the picnics and the parties, the weekends spent roaming the aisles of some box-shaped superstore of our choice, buying ever some appliances on credit? I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life—so why did I feel like none of it resembled me? Why did I feel so overwhelmed with duty, tired of being the primary breadwinner and the housekeeper and the social coordinator and the dog-walker and the wife and the soon-to-be mother, and—somewhere in my stolen moments—a writer...? I don't want to be married anymore.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Guess it's high time we add the 8th vow in marriage promising that we shall spend time with our husband or wife more than with social networking sites!
— Manasa Rao
None of us marry perfection
—  we marry potential.
Maiden Name Marrying left your maiden name disused. Its five light sounds no longer mean your face, Your voice, and all your variants of grace; For since you were so thankfully confused By law with someone else, you cannot be Semantically the same as that young beauty: It was of her that these two words were used. Now it's a phrase applicable to no one, Lying just where you left it, scattered through Old lists, old programmes, a school prize or two Packets of letters tied with tartan ribbon - Then is it scentless, weightless, strengthless, wholly Untruthful? Try whispering it slowly. No, it means you. Or, since you're past and gone, It means what we feel now about you then: How beautiful you were, and near, and young, So vivid, you might still be there among Those first few days, unfingermarked again. So your old name shelters our faithfulness, Instead of losing shape and meaning less With your depreciating luggage laden.
— Philip Larkin
The more you love, the more you awaken the divinity within.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Marriages can endure any difficulty with unfailing love and dedication.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love will always keep your heart warm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
marriage is an union between two persons not threeIn our businesses, work environment school etc... We do what we call third party credibility in order for the person you are exposing a business or an item to be sure and convince . But this should not be applied on a marriage couple. Because the third party credibility in marriage, brings confusion and chaos. People get married and still live with their family and their wives or husbands are always living hell at home because of the interaction. Marriage is a fellowship, two fellows in the same ship. We can't be more than two in that ship. Try it and you will see the flames consuming the ship or water( quarrel or confusion) entering the ship. Whether biological sister, brother, mother, father and friends we should stay in our position not to be cursed by God for destroying people's homes with the seed of discrepancy. Listen and listen carefully, God is the only first, second and third party we could imagine for with Him, there isn't confusion by Grace. God bless you.
— Jean Faustin Louembe
You are the greatest wife of all time and I love you so much more’ said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You have to passionately want it to possess it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In love, we are reborn to higher-self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I am completely dissolved in love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
She's your partner in all things. Remember how Ma and Pa used to act?'Simon nodded as he sat beside him. 'Every decision, every action taken together.'James raised his brows as he leaned against the wall. 'That's a tall order. Based on some of the married folks I've seen in town, not every marriage is such a joyful union.
— Regina Scott, Would-Be Wilderness Wife
Love is a blazing fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress—what would be the point? He'd already been watching me fall apart for months now, watching me behave like a madwoman (we both agreed on that word), and I only exhausted him. We both knew there was something wrong with me, and he'd been losing patience with it. We'd been fighting and crying, and we were weary in that way that only a couple whose marriage is collapsing can be weary. We had the eyes of refugees.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
But perhaps the best words of wisdom come from Anne Gilberto of East Boston, who's been married to Steve for more than 50 years. In that time, they've reached a form of compromise that not only gets things done but also lets them both take satisfaction in having had their own way. The secret to their long marriage, say Anne, is this: 'I always give him the last word. I tell him what to do, and he says, 'Yes, ma'am.
— Christine Schultz, The Old Farmer's Almanac Book of Love
Healthy people will marry healthy people because you will always end up with the person whom you believe you deserve.
— Debra Fileta, True Love Dates: Your Indispensable Guide to Finding the Love of your Life
Love sustains life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every time he left, I shattered apart.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
She returned to him, pressed his cheeks in her hands. "My eccentric old man, thinking you could fly.""This time, only my words will fly," he said solemnly. They both cracked up. Almost twenty years together and if blazing heat had turned to warmth, humor, it was less wild but easier to sustain.
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Do not live life without a spark of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I think you forget that I'm still alive. It's like you don't expect me to keep on existing now that I'm not in your life every day.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
I'm not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... then there's last night. And all of the other times like it. I have never been more alive than when I'm with you.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
We might be different people now. But he still knew me better than anyone else.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
Life isn't about falling in love as much as it is about learning to get over hatred..
— Sanhita Baruah
Love is the key that opens every heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A woman might save him from a heart attack, but she'll kill him in every other way.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Love is the flame that set the heart on fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love greatly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hold fast to the love of your life
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is the spirituality of the soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
!I0m not blaming you," he stated firmly. "I'm just trying to think. God, Kate, there are times when I think you hate me. When I think you would do anything to get rid of me. And then... there's last night. And all of the other times like it. I have never been more alive than when I'm with you.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
The bond of love must be kept strong.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My heart is broken; my spirit’s gone,I broke my lover’s heart, I made promises, I broke them all.The end was near, I’ve crossed to the other side,My heart is broken, my spirit’s gone,I made promises, I broke them all.
— Quetzal
Dare to love. Dare to live life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We're a mess, Kate.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
I thought we were perfect for each other.""There's no such thing as perfect," Eli commiserated.
— Rachel Higginson, Every Wrong Reason
If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.
— Swarnakanthi Rajapakse, The Master's Daughter
We will have a happy marriage if it kills him.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Love is splendid light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is a flame of fire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.
— Anthony Liccione
People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.
— Sanhita Baruah
God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much.
— Shannon L. Alder
Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.
— Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
I want a relationship where we talk like best friends, play like kids, argue like husband and wife, and protect each other like siblings.
— Anonymous
Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.”Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’ve never married.
— Samuel  Taylor
Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one. In some marriages, one partner gives up almost everything she once thought she wanted. But it's not always the woman who does so. Such sacrifice is not shameful. It's love. If you think the man is worth it, it works.
— Robin Hobb, The Mad Ship
I want you here. I want you in my home, my bed, my life,” he murmured, the smooth out of his voice, it was low and so rough with sex and emotion, it was abrasive, scoring through me.“Baby –”“I want your clothes in my closet. I wanna hear your voice in my house when you’re talkin’ on the phone. I want you sittin’ beside me when we’re watchin’ TV. I want shit you like in my fridge. I want “your razors in my shower. I want my roof over your head. Your car in my garage. I want to give you what I should have been giving you for sixteen years. As good as you deserve. A showplace. A place where I can make you happy.”God. He was killing me.“Creed, let me –”He didn’t let me finish. He pressed on, driving in, our bodies jolting with his thrusts, his voice harsh in my ear.“Give me that, Sylvie. Give me that and, swear to God, I’ll give you everything.”“I –”His head came up, his cock drove deep and stayed planted and his eyes burned into mine.“All I’ll ask. All I’ll ever ask. You give me that and you got a lifetime of nothin’ but take.
— Kristen Ashley, Creed
Love is divine force.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
— Salman Rushdie
He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, and made notes of things he would like to tell his Mary. During her day, which was given to feminine duties and pleasures, she frequently did the same thing. Between seven and eight in the evening they had delightful conversational opportunities. He picked up her book and glanced it over, he asked her a few questions and answered a few...
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
I’m beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don’t want to
—  those you want to marry and can’t.
To choose who to love, is a decision no one else can help you with -- you have to decide for yourself.
— Auliq Ice
There was no such thing as a marriage with one happy spouse. Both must be or neither.
— Sherry Thomas, Private Arrangements
…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
Not only does love bring joy and happiness, it also means very different things to people.
— Auliq Ice
Would you like to become my wife?""Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!
— Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.
— Marjane Satrapi, Embroideries
Relationship is only two on board. It has to sink when there is one extra passenger
— Farid F. Ibrahim
I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.
— Susan May Warren, The Wonder of You
My darling, pray daily for me, this is my special request.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is hard to understand what love is!
— Auliq Ice
Love is a flame of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Falling in love might be the hardest one, as it encompasses a lot.
— Auliq Ice
Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
My lover, best friend and husband, Sweetheart, every time you think of me, say a prayer for me!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?
— Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.
— Douglas Adams
Arguments escalate when we want to be right more than we want to be CHRIST. It's easy to get blinded in the heat of disagreement. Soon, all we want is to win. Even if victory requires sin. The one who wins the argument is usually the one who acts LESS like Christ.
— Francis Chan, You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity
A story that is more interesting than any novel written by Nicolas Spark
—  a relationship that has more emotions than any movie made by Karan Johar
You’re each others ‘The One', just make sure you are each other’s RIGHT one.
— J. Thomas Steele, Questions for Couples:  What to Ask BEFORE You Say "I Do"
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.
— Oscar Wilde
There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.
— Lily King, Euphoria
Appreciate her for who she is.
— Auliq Ice
Marriages don’t end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not “being seen or accepted” has ensued for too long.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
Losing him would, she realised, be unlike anything she had ever experienced before. A marriage is a conspiracy, a shared aspect toward the rest of the society, a code devised over a long history of negotiation and habit. That code would vanish. Her thoughts would be unobserved, her memories would be hers alone, without the heft that comes from sharing them with another. She would become insubstantial to herself.
— Matthew De Abaitua, If Then
Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation.
— Gary Thomas, A Lifelong Love: Devotional
Pray tell,” she said, although her voice told him not to.He ignored her tone, let out a thoughtful cloud of smoke, and said, ...
— Laurie R. King, Locked Rooms
More than any other attribute of Jesus, his humility is the key to a healthy marriage. If two people make it their goal to imitate the humility of Christ, everything else will take care of itself.
— Francis Chan
I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.
— Gary Thomas, A Lifelong Love: Devotional
We are most happy when we are most focused on serving God together.
— Gary Thomas, A Lifelong Love: Devotional
What is more likely to lead to true marital satisfaction-getting a fallen spouse to change his or her ways, or changing your own focus so that you draw affirmation from a God who never disappoints, never turns you away?
— Gary Thomas, A Lifelong Love: Devotional
Never look to other couples to measure your worth
—  look to God to fulfill your call.
I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?
— Catherynne M. Valente, Speak Easy
You should smile, look her in the eyes, and give her a small complement when you ask her out.
— Auliq Ice
Whatever you've been doing with the girls or women your age won't cut it.
— Auliq Ice
Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.
— Auliq Ice
Though you should still let her do what she wants, don't let her take total control of you or you won't be making the most of your experience.
— Auliq Ice
If you're single and not committed, then go for it. The world's your oyster. But, if you're happily married and want to remain happily married, then the only oyster should be the one sliding down your throat from your spouse.
— Jack Dancer, Detour Allure
One last “happy” thought: Your marriage will end either in death or divorce. (Think about it!) So well before the “I do’s” (and the eventual tears), why not give both of yourselves a chance for a marriage that can be the best it can be?
— J. Thomas Steele, Questions for Couples:  What to Ask BEFORE You Say "I Do"
Love is sensual and celestial.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
— Gary Thomas, A Lifelong Love: Devotional
The inscription in your wedding band says 'forever,' Callie. And it means forever. I'll love you until I close my eyes for the last time. And even afterward, I'll love you.
— Diana Palmer, The Last Mercenary
Never marry someone who doesn’t love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you.
— Roger Ebert
You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.
— Mary Balogh, The Proposal
Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
— Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom
I like this marriage thing, because it's the best of all of us. We get to be the whole meal. The appetizer, the entree, the luxurious dessert... And yes, the peas and the carrots.
— Cassie Mae, Doing It for Love
Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
the nation's young men havebeen proved by surveys to be completely unmarriageable, and as a result there's a wholegeneration of single girls like me with their own incomes and homes who have lots of fun anddon't need to wash anyone else's socks.
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
The terms `Husband' and `Wife' are inappropriate. They are only companions ad partners. One does not slave for other. They both have equal status.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Daddy is jive talkingand showering the stripperMommy is sleepwalkingwhile changing baby's diaper
— Casey Renee Kiser, Swan Wreck
We're going to be married and hardly touch each other and have to work and work and never have any fun and we're just going to be okay with it because that's how life is and that's how relationships go, but I don't want that. I want our marriage to be... fun. I love joking around while we fool around. I want to hold hands everywhere we go. I want to make out in the back of a movie theater, steal kisses in coffee shops, have sex over every inch of our apartment or house or wherever we live. And I'm scared marriage will change the fun part of our relationship. The part that keeps us young, keeps us in love, and I'm terrified you'll wake up when you're fifty and realize you're stuck with the decision you made when you were twenty-seven, and we haven't touched in months, we don't go out. I just want to know when that happens... that you'll still... you'll still love me.
— Cassie Mae, Doing It for Love
More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a sheet of paper with signatures make?""If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer," she said simply.
— Diana Palmer, The Last Mercenary
When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented.
— Katherine Valdez, Baby Shoes: 100 Stories by 100 Authors
Love forgives and keeps no records of wrongs .
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
In love, we are made perfect.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Like my prehistoric hunter-gatherer ancestors, I hit the road fairly often in my footloose youth. From Yale’s Dramat to Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddhas, from the tantric ashrams of Kathmandu to the libertine scenes of the Côte D’Azur and deep down into the dungeons of New York’s aptly named meat-packing district, I searched and researched sex, love and the politics of pleasure (mostly among humans)...All of that searching and researching climaxed when I met my favorite research subject, who turned into my primary research partner and “prime mate,” my charming Prince Max. Unlike so many sex researchers who fall in and out of love (with their research as well as each other), we’re still researching, still married and, almost three decades later, more in love than ever thanks to a little bit of luck and the Bonobo Way.
— Susan Block, The Bonobo Way
Love is the beauty of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is friendship. Love is happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love always trust, always hopes, and always protects.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God
— Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who
Love is not self-seeking.Love is not easily angered.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
OK," she said. "Let's try. But remember one thing. You're going to lose interest. At some point, it will happen. You don't think so now, but you'll get distracted. You have to stay with me. If we have a family together, you have to be here to help.
— Louisa Hall, Speak
First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america :Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feelings are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Safety is more important than Fun.I always hear women say 'Y'know married men live longer'. Yes. And an indoor cat also, lives longer.
— Bill Maher
Are you kidding me? How can you even ask me that? I'm stuck in a world I have no hope of surviving, I'm forced to depend on a guy who thinks I can't be trusted, I'm being pushed into marrying a man who believes I can't talk, and I've lost everyone I've ever cared about! Why wouldn't I feel uneasy?
— Cheryl Koevoet, The Carnelian Legacy
First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely eyed realists. And millions and millions of men who are anything but. However. For lack of a better term I would say that the feminine values are the values of america :Sensitivity is more important than Truth. Feeling are more important than Facts. Commitment is more important than Individuality. Children are more important than People. Safety is more important than Fun.I always hear women say 'Y'know married men live longer'. Yes. And an indoor cat also, lives longer.
— Bill Maher
We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...
— Gary Thomas
Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.
— Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
Too many people spend their life in fear of making a mistake. However, here is the truth: Fear is the mistake. If you block out all the doubts and listen only to what you feel in your heart, then follow that course, you waste less time in indecision and spend more time being authentic. Life is too short to settle for parttime happiness.
— Shannon L. Alder
I won’t give my heart to another girl until God shows me it’s my wife.
— Eric Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound aloneness. It induces you to mature and become whole for the sake of your beloved ... to truly love another, you must first wholly love yourself. Love therefore exacts the most demanding claim of all; it both chooses you and pursues you, and reaches out, as if over vast distances, to call and draw you into your now and future self."-- John VanDyke Wilmerding, ideas put forth inspired by ('after') Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes even a "Yes" can be fatal for our Souls
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Love holds the key to every heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
We’ve learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.
— Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: Why Women Need to Fight Spiritual Battles
We do not fight to tear down but to build up.
— Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: Why Women Need to Fight Spiritual Battles
Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you are in love, you always want to be with your lover.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you never love, then you never lived.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Being married means giving it your all to your spouse daily. Even when you don’t feel like it and even when it hurts. It means looking beyond yourself, and giving to them because they are a part of you.
— marriage.com
If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on performance; if it is an expression of love and commitment, you are not graded at all.
— Ron Brackin
Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?
— Leslie Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
Falling in love is the most beautiful wonder.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.
— Dermot Davis, Fatal Eclipse
In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
— Howard Mittelmark, How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide
My love, you are always on my mind and heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop,’ declares Elsie.
— Emmanuelle de Maupassant, The Gentlemen's Club
If you take on the martyr/entitlement role, two things are definitely going to happen: you’ll be a lot less happier with your life, and you will have a husband not exactly wanting to come home to you.
— Laura Schlessinger
A man and a woman represent two heavenly beings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
She [the wife of godly character] brings him [her husband] good, not harm, all the days of her life (Proverbs 31:12). Wait a minute! My mind raced. All the days of her life? What was that supposed to mean? I had yet to meet any woman who had been married all the days of her life. Did this verse mean that she tried to do her husband good…even before she met him?
— Leslie Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
Marriage couple represent one heavenly being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There are 613,806,639 men in the world. Statistically, God has got you covered! So, never worry about one person not caring about you. Someone up to the challenge will always take his place.
— Shannon L. Alder
The only man meant to be in your life is a man that knows your worth.
— Shannon L. Alder
Live is not about constantly fighting to keep someone in your life. It is about constantly fighting for a better life together.
— Shannon L. Alder
Throughout our youth, whenever we had a dispute, Li Wei and I would apologize to each other by exchanging gifts. Mine would be in the form of drawings, crudely done with whatever natural supplies I could find. His would always be carvings. There was only one time the exchange didn't happen, the day I told him I was accepting the apprentice position and would never be able to marry him.
— Richelle Mead, Soundless
When you least expect it is when the person you always dreamt of will finally show up.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don't make a wish you aren't willing to come true. Don't dream a dream you aren't willing to pursue. Don't love a man you can't say, "I do".
— Willowy Whisper
He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
We all face difficult times. It is only the grace of God that gives strength to endure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.
— Barbara Lieberman, The Treasure of Ravenwood
You’ll be angry, but I’m going to ask anyway. Will you marry me?' The unsupported voice, the one that happened when he couldn’t breathe, but had to speak.I nudged his hands apart to see his face, and found it faintly overcast by tension. 'No,' I said gently,He blinked again and asked, his voice unaltered, 'May I ask you once a year, every seventh of December, in case the answer changes?''Yes. I don’t think it will.''Oh. I only ask because I hate the thought of not having breakfast with you for the rest of my life.''My dear,' I said. 'Jamie. That’s a different question.''Oh. Will you have breakfast with me for the rest of my life?''Probably.
— Steven Brust, Freedom and Necessity
Its all about perception in life, For some One minus One = One & for some its Zero.That's the only difference.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
Sometimes it's better for a struggling writer to stay single, than to keep hearing, "Oh, your a writer, and you need to spend time in writing? Then go marry your writing!
— Anthony Liccione
Love is the spirit of divinity within every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
What was marriage but sex plus property.
— Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word
He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a period of quiet dinners together, of flowers rather than diamonds, of kisses given after permission to kiss, of a slow awakening that predisposed her to greater intimacies. But no, not the great Alexander Kinross! He had met her, he had married her the next day, and climbed into her bed after one kiss in the church. There to prove himself an animal in her eyes. One mistake after another, that was the story of his relationship with Elizabeth. And Ruby had always meant more.
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started.
— Beth Morey, Night Cycles: Poetry for a Dark Night of the Soul
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library."Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.
— Amanda Quick, Rendezvous
Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?......My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.
— Judith Claire Mitchell
Do you realize that you've been married to me for just about half of your entire life?"Her head came down, her eyes opened wide to stare at him. "Is that all?" she asked. "It seems an eternity"."Did I say a quiet lion?" Alexander pulled a face. "An eternity with me has turned you into a bitch, my dear".
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
World full of love, will spark the force of divine powers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
— Virginie des Rieux
Older women are of less sexual and reproductive, and thus by extension, matrimonial value. This is just biology meets the Catholic sacrament of matrimony, of which its virtues are 1) pleasing your spouse and 2) making children. Older women, being less fertile and less able to please their spouse, thus make for less virtuous marriages.If the excellence of marriage is grounded in the unitative and procreative telos of sexuality, a woman's youth and fertility are virtuous traits and a virtuous man would rightly prize those traits in a prospective wife.Let us perform an empirical investigation. If we compare societies where the norm of marriage is at a younger age (for the girl) rather than an older age, which marriages are more fruitful? That is, which marriages produce more children and are less likely to end in divorce? I'm sure we are equally acquainted with the results of our modern Western norms, are you acquainted with the results of non-modern Western norms?Excusing, rather than excoriating, modern Western norms is mere sophistry, sophistry which our host has held forth as an ostensibly authentic Catholic view. However, it simply isn't; it is a modern view dressed up in Catholic-sounding phrases.
— Bryce Laliberte
We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by marriage. It's an act of love - of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There's nothing about it you shouldn't welcome.
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot. God gives pleasure in it only to husbands. Women are the source of evil and temptation, therefore women are to blame when men fall into fleshly error. It was Eve who seduced Adam, Eve who entered into league with the serpent, who was the Devil in disguise. So the only pleasure women are allowed is in their children.
— Colleen McCullough, The Touch
I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go out of the window.""Well, old boy," said Charles comfortably, "that's the price we have to pay for having company in our old age and for ensuring that we have heirs to follow us.
— Colleen McCullough
Do you ever get a panicky feeling that nobody cares if you live or die? (A husband will often care decisively, one way or another.)
— Sandra Gould, Always Say Maybe: A Modern Girl's Guide To Almost Everything, But Mostly Men
My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.
— Heather Day Gilbert, Trial by Twelve
A very wise person once told me marriage is hard, that you have to keep fighting for it everyday.
— Liz Fenton, The Status of All Things
In the end it will be your “Actions” “Convictions” & “Thoughts” which will determine how you shaped your life.
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely
How long you will live in your dreams? The time is now, it's better to go and follow them..
— Abhysheq Shukla, The Reflection "Success or Stress"Choose Wisely