Marriage Wisdom Quotes

What is life without love? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. ~ Ariel Gore

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit ... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any. ~ D.H. Lawrence

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. ~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

[ ... ] marriage is one thing, and love is another ... You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques ... ~ Andre Maurois

Friends for life, friends forever. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ~ Phyllis McGinley

A small match lights a big fire. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself. ~ Deepak Chopra

Gate C22

At gate C22 in the Portland airport
a man in a broad-band leather hat kissed
a woman arriving from Orange County.
They kissed and kissed and kissed. Long after
the other passengers clicked the handles of their carry-ons
and wheeled briskly toward short-term parking,
the couple stood there, arms wrapped around each other
like he'd just staggered off the boat at Ellis Island,
like she'd been released at last from ICU, snapped
out of a coma, survived bone cancer, made it down
from Annapurna in only the clothes she was wearing.

Neither of them was young. His beard was gray.
She carried a few extra pounds you could imagine
her saying she had to lose. But they kissed lavish
kisses like the ocean in the early morning,
the way it gathers and swells, sucking
each rock under, swallowing it
again and again. We were all watching–
passengers waiting for the delayed flight
to San Jose, the stewardesses, the pilots,
the aproned woman icing Cinnabons, the man selling
sunglasses. We couldn't look away. We could
taste the kisses crushed in our mouths.

But the best part was his face. When he drew back
and looked at her, his smile soft with wonder, almost
as though he were a mother still open from giving birth,
as your mother must have looked at you, no matter
what happened after–if she beat you or left you ~ Ellen Bass

Dreams are an insight into our psychology: they are what we are, but stripped of the conventions and norms of psychology, and the rules of the physical world… ~ Belsebuub

All of life is one action following another, interspersed by periods of rest. If we are in doubt about the outcome of our actions, if our thoughts are concerned with, "What if I should fail?" we will be filled with hesitancy, uncertainty, and our actions will lack the conviction needed to obtain a decisive, favorable outcome. Even the worst outcome we can imagine will ultimately benefit us. It is because of that law of favorability that the Universe is able to continue and we are able to bring about the fruition of our plans. ~ Wu Wei

The main differences between prostitution and most relationships are the lengths of the relationships and the methods of payment. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue. ~ Hans F. Sennholz

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. ~ Janet Jackson

Sometimes the things we do second time around are better and hold more value because we take the time to reflect and review, and revive them through a higher love. Don't be afraid to try again and do-over with greater wisdom, a fresh set of eyes, and a renewed hope. Life is not a straight line of first time successes. It's the road that is paved with failure and seemingly wrong turns that provides us with character, emotional grit and inner muscle to find new perspectives. The only expiry date to your dreams, intentions or goals is the one you allow to soak into your soul. ~ Christine Evangelou

Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage. ~ Abhijit Naskar

When you are doing something you love, you see the lover dancing in your heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

And within the house
ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
fury is lapping the walls,
dishes crack on the shelves,
a strangler needs my throat,
the daughter has ceased to eat anything ... ~ Anne Sexton

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage. ~ Rajneesh

Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a person was zapped by one of those bolts, they'd fall down on their knees and once on their knees, they'd be under water, in this place I saw once off the east coast of the Bahamas, a place where a billion electric blue fish swam up to me and made me a part of their school--and then they'd be up in the air, up in Manhattan, above the World Trade Center, with a flock of pigeons, flying amid the skyscrapers, and then--then what? And then they'd go blind, and then they'd be taken away--they'd feel homesick--more homesick than they'd felt in their entire life--so homesick they were throwing up--and they'd be abandoned, I don't know...in the middle of a harvested corn field in Missouri. And then they'd be able to see again, and from the edges of the field people would appear--everybody they'd known--and they'd be carrying Black Forest cakes and burning tiki lamps and boom boxes playing the same song, and they sky would turn into a sunset, the way it does in Walt Disney brochure, and the person I zapped would never be alone or isolated again. ~ Douglas Coupland

And yes, it all might end at any moment for any of us, in violence or not, but what matters is what we do before that. The lives we lead. ~ Scott Snyder

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. ~ Samuel Richardson

My unpleasant past has given me wisdom to build a pleasant Future. ~ Sheldon Pereira

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. ~ Kahlil Gibran

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. ~ Michelle Richmond

To overlook those years (muddled, complicated times) is to fall into the trap of only celebrating success. We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity- were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in later years. ~ Brent Schlender

Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Time is time.
You cannot replay time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

I wish you to understand that there is one man, and only one, for each woman, and one woman only for each man. When those two meet they fly together and are one through all the endless chain of existence. Until they meet all unions are mere accidents which have no meaning. Sooner or later each couple becomes complete. It may not be here. It may be in the next sphere where the sexes meet as they do on earth. Or it may be further delayed. But every man and every woman has his or her affinity, and will find it. Of earthly marriages perhaps one in five is permanent. The others are accidental. Real marriage is of the soul and spirit. Sex actions are a mere external symbol which mean nothing and are foolish, or even pernicious, when the thing which they should symbolize is wanting. Am I clear? ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers. ~ Georgette Heyer

Wisdom comes from knowing that what others say about you is not your reality. It's their reality. ~ Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

When you mess up-fix it, when you fail-fall forward and learn, when you suffer loss-heal and
always pay it forward ~ Val Uchendu

No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out. ~ Merle Shain

CAN is the enemy of DO. ~ Alaina Odessa

Siddharth accepts me in the way I am. In the first few months of marriage I got bogged down by the
notion that I had to juggle between handling home duties and starting work on a new film. He explained
I needn't be a superwoman. He understands that if he could go out to work and end up neglecting things
at home, so could I. ~ Vidya Balan

The universe falls in love with you; that's why you got invitation to come here to make the universe joyful and beautiful with your intention and love. ~ Debasish Mridha

It's not what you take, it's what you give.
It's not what you know, it's what you apply.
It's not who you lack, it's what you acquire.
It's not what you have, it's what has you.

It's not what you earn, it's what you save.
It's not what you buy, it's what you enjoy.
It's not what you seek, it's what you find.
It's not what you encounter, it's what you experience.

It's not what you think, it's what you believe.
It's not what you see, it's what you comprehend.
It's not what you feel, it's what you value.
It's not what you do, it's what you accomplish.

It's not what you want, it's what you pursue.
It's not what you chase, it's what you attract.
It's not what you avoid, it's what you follow.
It's not what you intend, it's what you execute.

It's not what you mask, it's what you reveal.
It's not what you desire, it's what you need.
It's not what you receive, it's what you embrace.
It's not what you demand, it's what you deserve.

It's not what you lose, it's what you gather.
It's not what you cherish, it's what you honor.
It's not what you fear, it's you master.
It's not what you conquer, it's what you win over. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about. ~ Shane Filan

Where is the truth then? Where does truth exist, behind the lie, within the lie? Is truth that which we seek to know or that which we avoid knowing? ~ Vera Jane Cook

When you are in love, reality becomes
illusion and illusion become reality. ~ Debasish Mridha

Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right.
Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong. ~ Roy Bennett

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697 ~ Ambrose Bierce

Creativity is a massive and the sharpest voice that reaches every corner of the globe. ~ Euginia Herlihy