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From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being. ↗

— Baal Shem Tov

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Never unlock your heart to someone who has to bend the key to make it fit. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

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a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves ↗

— Derrick Jensen

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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. ↗

— Timothy Keller

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He remembers which sister I like least and asks how she is doing. (lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') ↗

— Carrie Etter

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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. ↗

— Paula McLain

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...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

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When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front. ↗

— Silas House

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