Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage.

Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only reluctantly - because marriage means responsibility. Marriage means bondage, marriage means now you are imprisoned. Now you are no more free to move with other women. For a man, marriage looks like a prison. For a woman, marriage looks like safety, security, a home. For a woman marriage means home, and for a man marriage means slavery. Total different beliefs, so they act differently. Conflicting beliefs.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.