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Dandelions represent the easy way. You pick up a dandelion and it's so soft, and it's so easy and even fun sometimes to blow the seeds everywhere. And you don't even realize what you're doing. Nothing happens right then, except you get a pretty little show in the breeze. It's not until later, sometimes, a long time later, that you look out in your garden and realize what you did.It's easy, love, to pull back, to hide in yourself, to run and say you're just taking some time, to keep all of your emotions inside, maybe even to think you're protecting me from something. It would be easier still for me to let you do that. To watch you blow those dandelion seeds everywhere, and pretend it won't damage anything. To pretend we won't wake up one summer morning to discover we've allowed a huge patch of weeds to grow between us, opening up cracks in the foundation of our marriage.Thorns, on the other hand... they're not easy. They hurt. They make you want to give up on the whole plant sometimes. But if you don't give up, love, if you fight through it, allow yourself to be hurt - the result is beautiful and strong. And it will last forever if you care for it.
— Breeana Puttroff
As spouses, we play a big role in the development of each other's self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. An entire personality can be destroyed and a marriage ripped apart over the course of just months. It's important that husbands and wives take this subject seriously and learn to build each other up through the simple concepts of dating. It's critical that the older we get, the younger we feel. As the years pass, our attitudes towards each other and our relationships should become more positive and our lives more meaningful.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend.
— Stephen King, Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
I assumed my first undivided responsibility.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Keep strong the bond of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The way you date(treat) your spouse, truly has an impact inside and outside of your marriage.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
Ask any successfully married couple what keeps their relationship alive and they will tell you, "interest." It's as simple as that.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
In this changing world around us we can't help but change. Change is what makes our relationships so interesting! without it there wouldn't be anything new happening in our lives. Your job as an equal in your relationship is to look for change in your spouse and embrace it. When you show a devoted interest in every talent, hobby, desire, passion or goal that your spouse tosses on the table, you are telling your spouse that he/she is important to you. The favor will be returned tenfold. Life will become more interesting!
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
Many tradesmen export their best commodities-the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour
—  but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.
Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, How to Date Your Spouse: A Couple's Guide to Falling and Staying in Love
Wanting to give her the best fit I could, I sand the knowledge I had learned from Snow Flower. "Everyone needs clothing-no matter how cool it is in summer or how warm it is in winter-so make clothes for others without being asked. Even if the table is plentiful, let your in-laws eat first. Work hard and remember three things: Be god to your in-laws and always show respect, be good to your husband and always weave for him, be good to your children and always be a model of decorum to them. If you do these things, your new family will treat you kindly. In that fine home, be calm of heart.
— Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.
— Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged peaks and hidden crevasses that send the both of you scrabbling into darkness. Then there are dull, parched stretches that you feel will never end, and much of the journey is in fraught silence, and sometimes you can't see the other person at all, sometimes they drift off very far away from you, quite out of sight, and the journey is hard. It is just very, very, very hard.
— David Nicholls, Us
She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.
— Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister
It was a dark story.
— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Forever, Interrupted
Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.
— David Nicholls, Us
No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can’t have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice—
— Meg Cabot, Ransom My Heart
I will not give up on love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On this day, I give you my heart. I promise to be your lover, companion, and friend. Your greatest advocate and your toughest adversary, your comrade in adventure and your accomplice in mischief, and your ally in all things. I promise to communicate fully and fearlessly, and pledge my love, devotion, faith, and honor as i join my life to yours.
— April White, Waging War
It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don’t last!
— DeBorrah K. Ogans, Holy Matrimony: Now That We're Married
I think mixed women from interracial marriages are beautiful, and for many reasons, all of them good.
— Daniel Marques
There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.
— John Tracy Wilson, Of Life, Love and Family: Real World Insights Into Our Most Important Relationships
Love is blind. You don't have to be.
— Michael  Gabriel, The Balanced Relationship Barometer: A Practical Approach to Achieve a Healthy and Fulfilling Love Relationship
But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, and religion, united with sweetness of temper, modest deportment, and a love of domestic life; such is the woman who will divide the sorrows and double the joys of thy life. Take her to thyself; she is worthy to be thy nearest friend, thy companion, the wife of thy bosom.
— Noah Webster, Noah Websters Advice to the Young & Moral Catechism
He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend.
— Edith Wharton
It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.
— Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
I’m afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage—ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth . . .Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come—as they inevitably do.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.
— Dada Bhagwan
Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke.
— Richard Ford, A Multitude of Sins
Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
While God’s will is that every marriage will endure, man’s sin has poisoned many relationships.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn’t based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant . . .many people believe divorce is the answer.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many people today have discarded the Bible’s clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A good marriage is not “made in heaven,” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Marriage is God’s invention, not ours! Society didn’t establish it; God did.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Satan’s first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage—trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I know of few families today that aren’t touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I’ve ever known. That’s her rule book, her compass.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I have been asked the question, “Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?’ My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for conflict.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
My wife often said that “a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.
— Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding
I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at the telescope at night. I wonder if she hopes for cloudy nights and then feels guilty.
— Pippa Goldschmidt, The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space
Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.
— Amit Kalantri
Liza Hempstock, who had been Bod's friend for the last six years, was different in another way; she was less likely to be there for him when Bod went down to the nettle patch to see her, and on the rare occasions when she was, she would be short-tempered, argumentative and often downright rude.Bod talked to Mr Owens about this, and after a few moments' reflection, his father said, "It's just women, I reckon. She liked you as a boy, probably isn't sure who you are now you're a young man. I used to play with one little girl down by the duck pond every day until she turned about your age, and then she threw an apple at my head and did not say another word to me until I was seventeen."Mrs Owens stiffened. "It was a pear I threw," she said, tartly, "and I was talking to you again soon enough, for we danced a measure at your cousin Ned's wedding, and that was but two days after your sixteenth birthday."Mr Owens said, "Of course you are right, my dear." He winked at Bod, to tell him that it was none of it serious. And then mouthed "Seventeen" to show that, really, it was.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnessed the greatest happiness which there can be on this earth, it is hardly necessary to say that the highest idea of the family is attainable only where the father and mother stand to each other as lovers and friends. In these homes the children are bound to father and mother by ties of love, respect, and obedience, which are simply strengthened by the fact that they are treated as reasonable beings with rights of their own, and that the rule of the household is changed to suit the changing years, as childhood passes into manhood and womanhood.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Love fuels a happy soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Don’t give up on the love of your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are inter-dependence and co-dependence upon one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Any man,” she muttered, “who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution.” “Marriage is an institution,” he said reasonably, retrieving her gown from the floor.
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.
— Jeffrey Rasley, False Prophet: A Legal Thriller
If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
— H.W. Brands
Landsman and Bina were married to each other for twelve years and together for five before that. Each was the other's first lover, first betrayer, first refuge, first roommate, first audience, first person to turn to when something -- even the marriage itself -- went wrong. For half their lives they tangled their histories, bodies, phobias, theories, recipes, libraries, record collections. They mounted spectacular arguments, nose-to-nose, hands flying, spittle flying, throwing things, kicking things, breaking things, rolling around on the ground grabbing up fistfuls of each other's hair. The next day he would bear the red moons of Bina's nails in his cheeks and on the meat of his chest, and she wore his purple fingerprints like an armlet.
— Michael Chabon
If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand.
— RSCruz
When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it.
— C.S. Lewis
I know many a strong man undone by marriage.
— Clive Barker, Tonight, Again
Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Gardens don’t grow by themselves
—  they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.
The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don’t teach boys to do the same?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
Men are a compilation of every experience and relationship they have ever lived through. Some experiences have bettered your man while others have battered him. The man standing before you is the result of a lifetime of surviving.
— Dave Samples, Messed Up Men of the Bible
WILL YOU DANCE WITH MEAs we stand here,Hand in hand,Under the neon lightsOf Truth and Love.I'm asking you toDance with me.To twirl,Kick,Drop,Jump,And flyWith me.Skidding andSliding acrossThe dancefloor of life,I want you toGlide with me.Through theSaddest andHappiest songs,The fastest highsTo the longest andSlowest lows,I want you toFlow throughThem allWithMe.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.
— L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush
Don't settle… The worst thing will be to find the man or woman that truly deserves you after you've married one who doesn't.
— Nike Thaddeus
If you go to somebody's house for a barbecue, it is only a matter of time before a guest has six beers and begins to inveigh loudly about how the institution of marriage is a sham, how it's a violation of nature's will, how monogamy is an outmoded expectation that might have made sense for power-consolidating families in AD 600 but makes little sense now, when there's you know, high school flames you can look up on Facebook. This well-versed marriage critic will then burp loudly and fall asleep in a lawn chair for the rest of the night, which says all you need to know about his marriage.
— Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
I haven’t been to a temple in years, never been forced. My folks always said, marry a nice human being, religion doesn’t matter. They said your god is inside you! Don’t you forget that. Krishna, Jesus, Allah, are all one. Follow vegetarianism as far as you can, but you can choose your own diet, doesn’t matter. Believe in god, but for you and not because the world asks you to. Forgive and forget to be at peace. Do not believe in revenge, believe in karma!!
— Manasa Rao
I'm strictly a 'look at the menu but don't order anything' guy when it comes to attractive women who aren't my wife.
— C.T. Phipps, The Games of Supervillainy
I’ve always thought that Binding was a bit like a war − both sides think they’re right, and neither wants to back down…the only difference is that you’re sleeping with the enemy.”-Evan
— Suzanne Wright, The Bite That Binds
She was still not at ease with the idea that she was now important enough to have people as accessories. Nor was she comfortable with the idea of these people as gatekeepers with access to the details of their personal lives. Whenever she felt herself shrinking under the indifferent glare of the staff that surrounded her, as she did in this instance, she straightened her back and lifted her chin in the way that Chiedza, her trusted advisor-friend, had instructed her to do.
— Panashe Chigumadzi
If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.
— James Plunkett, Strumpet City
Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be.
— Kemi Sogunle
You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your ‘morality’ that lauds ‘women’ over the supposedly lesser ‘whores’ and ‘girls’. That’s how society sees us. That’s how you see us. You want it to be that we are like coal, only to be loved in the dark and tossed like ashes come morning.
— Panashe Chigumadzi, Sweet Medicine
Why couldn't Mr. Darcy, in the first half hour of the movie, simply walk up to Elizabeth and say, "Hey, I like you. Do you want to go out on a date? And, by the way, I'm filthy rich." I'll tell you why. Because that would defeat the purpose of a chick flick, which is to entertain women and torture men.
— David E. Clarke, Kiss Me Like You Mean It: Solomon's Crazy in Love How-To Manual
He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.
— Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son: A Novel
You can’t fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,’ says the ng’anga.
— Panashe Chigumadzi
When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
The greatest sacred sayings
—  I love you.
Life is love. Love is God. God is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.
— Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Love keeps heart warm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love keeps my heart warm.,
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement
— Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.
— Harper Lee
Temptation goes both ways. Sometimes, you can be tempted to live a half life because it pleases someone else. Don't ever live in such a way that your heart splits into two souls. You might find yourself sinning for the rest of your life because you don't want to really be in that situation, but you don't want to hurt the kids. That is a hell that your children will pick up on soon enough. Staying for the kids is possible, but it takes two people to agree that choice is their lifestyle, not one. Otherwise, you hold another person captive because of your fear of stating the obvious-- you are not in love with them.
— Shannon L. Alder
Married and buried, wed and dead.
— Rachel Caine, Prince of Shadows
To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.
— Shannon L. Alder
Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in America do not live longer than single women; married women do not accumulate as much wealth as single women (you take a 7 percent pay cut, on average, just for getting hitched); married women do not thrive in their careers to the extent single women do; married women are significantly less healthy than single women; married women are more likely to suffer from depression than single women; and married women are more likely to die a violent death than single women—usually at the hands of a husband, which raises the grim reality that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous person in the average woman’s life is her own man.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Marriage is sacred intimacy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.
— Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at the Table
Love is heartbeat of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you can fall in love, then you can love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every spirit seeks its sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love exists at all times.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The light of love is life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.
— Kent Haruf
In the light, our hearts only knows love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is pure and divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.
— Lynn Cullen, Mrs. Poe
In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones
— Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.
— Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.
— Shannon L. Alder
Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Marriage is a cheerful commitment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.
— Vann Chow, The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
The strength of a woman is the love she carries in her heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.
— Jane Austen
Call it dating if you like, but I didn’t want her to be under the impression that it was anything serious. Not at that point in any case, it was more to be an experiment in human social relationships, one which might or might not lead to sex and or marriage.
— Andrew James Pritchard, Sukiyaki
Marriage is a mutual friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The sacred time will define the sacred event.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
In marriage, the man and woman must complement each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Marriage is a sacred-commitment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Husband and wife, must complement each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
Go for what you want.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We must keep together, we belong to each other.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life is a sacred love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.
— Crissy Moss, Small Bites: The Complete Collection
Love awakens the divine-spirit of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is better to love than hate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it
— Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is described by some as a moment when the world stops moving...it did just that for me. I knew before she said one word or made a single movement, that our lives would begin to dissolve into each other...we would never part again. This was not love at first sight, but rather second. I had fallen in love at eleven; now I was twenty and now all things were possible.
— Graham Kerr, Flash of Silver: ...the Leap That Changed My World
Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.
— Archie Lee
We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
Are you planning to get married?' She finally asked. 'Like to someone in particular?' He shrugged. 'Aren't most marriages to someone in particular?
— Cassandra Gannon, Beast in Shining Armor
Wolf," she said. "Married is wonderful, married is lovely. But I loved you before that, and you were mine before that. Only you for me—only me for you. That's how it was before our marriage." The smile fell away and left her pale and determined. "That's how it was when I found you in that pit trap all those years ago—I knew as soon as I first saw your eyes. But then, I've known all my life what love is. It took you, who had nothing to compare it to, rather longer to figure out, to understand what is between us. But even when you did not understand or recognize it—it was always love.
— Patricia Briggs, Wolfsbane
To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then?
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a "one-woman man".
— Adeline Yen Mah
Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My ancestors were all shepherds who got married in their thirties and then stayed together for life, who had long and happy marriages, no doubt because they were already deaf. My grandparents courted for nine years before they married in 1933.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, Glory in the Lord
Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source.” - Warren Buffet
— Archie Lee
I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.
— Larry Gent, To Money and a TV
Love is the strength of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The light shines in our hearts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In all spheres of life, we find the grace of patient endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never pray for just a beautiful and sexy partner, but pray for that who fear God. That he/she will not sin against his God.
— Nana cwame Aboagye
And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Affinity of a marriage is not a destination, but a journey of two hearts breezing into an yearning eternity
— Bernard Dsa, Sweet Temptations
The most successful relationships are ones with a really low negativity threshold. In those relationships, couples allow each other to complain, and work together to constantly repair the tiny issues between them. In such cases, couples don't bottle up their feelings, and little things don't end up being blown completely out of proportion.
— Hannah Fry
What makes you think I ever got married? Married women work themselves to death, all their money goes to husbands who gamble it away. Why would I ever do that to myself?
— Kim van Alkemade, Orphan Number Eight
Your love awakens my spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
But in those solitary Masses they began to be aware that once again they were mistresses of their fate, after having renounced not only their family name but their own identity in exchange for a security that was no more than another of a bride's many illusions. They alone knew how tiresome was the man they loved to distraction, who perhaps loved them but whom they had to continue nurturing until his last breath as if he were a child, suckling him, changing his soiled diapers, distracting him with a mother's tricks to ease his terror at going out each morning to face reality. And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. (4.113)
— Gabriel García Márquez
Love is the key to heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is soul food.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Promise me, you will always be there for me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
And yet, despite the multiplicity of times we've done it, it is still a funny, exultant, true thing - where for a short time you turn into something else and fly; where you stop fretting and wanting, and are simply alight with joy - and all while never venturing beyond the walls of your room. And I would put our continued success down to one simple thing. At the end of every tumbling session, one of us will turn to the other and say, "Thank you very much. That was very pleasant. Very pleasant indeed. My dear, I am much obliged to you."Because at the end of the day, that is the hottest sex tip of all: gratitude. That you've found someone who wants to do that thing, with you, and no government has yet found a way to charge you VAT on it. You can set fire to the sky, and not be charged a penny.Sometimes, it's great being a human.
— Caitlin Moran
All the beatitudes manifest in the sacred-time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the strength of the life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Marriages last because the people in them want to be married
— Linda Grant
I have seen young boys in this village get married. They think it all bed, poor fellows. I see it quite different to this. I’m in no hurry at all. I must work. I mustn’t be worried or distracted. Not yet. I couldn’t spend time on my work if I was married.
— Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
There is something treasonable about a child that does well. A market gardener I know, who is now about twenty, is a lonely person because he went to the grammar school and the village women say, ‘Didn’t get him far did it? All that schooling and he’s still on the land.’ Perhaps they know there is nothing like education for breaking up an ordinary country family.
Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.
— Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
Promise me, you will love me forever.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the soul food!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t let go of your heart-love, soul mate!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.
— Edith Wharton
Love is divinity of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love is the key to the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A loving woman finds heaven or hellOn the day she is made a bride
— Lena Lathrop
No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love feeds on deception.
— Erol Ozan
He doesn’t need a donkey,” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
If you're not entirely sure you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, it seems to me that the last thing you'd want to do is to set in motion a very lengthy, time-consuming, expensive, and highly public process designed to lead inexorably to just that.
— Donna Andrews, Murder With Peacocks
A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Married life is not for the faint hearted. Sometimes it can look like an ugly battlefield
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Before marriage man prays that god give him a wife, after marriage he prays that god save him from her.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Wife: a former girlfriend
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
You don't need a great cathedral for a great marriage. All you need is fate to be on your side
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Husband: a former boyfriend
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Marriage is but a consolidation of resources
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I am a great wife.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Divine self exist in love, in faith and in purity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is the beauty of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!