#marriage

Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more. ↗

— Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

#dating #humor #inspirational #marriage #relationships-advice

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#marriage #sex #death

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marriage #death

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#marriage #communication

Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#love #marriage #dreams

The only thing that's wrong with marriage & love now and days is that when people exchange vows & promise to stick for better or for worse ,to many only wanna stick through the best and don't work things out when it comes to the worst they take the easy way out by just giving up how can you give up on something so important it's like giving up on your dreams!! ↗

— Rosiermz

#love #love-story #marriage #vows #dreams

Marriage can wait, education cannot. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#marriage #education

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. ↗

— Elizabeth Peters

#equality

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

#humanity #integration #interfaith-marriage #intermarriage #interracial-marriage

In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#marriage #equality