LOVE / MARRIAGE

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon sand.

Hugh Elliott

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feeling that we experience when we are in love represents a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Shelley Klammer

It is possible to be so changed by love as to be hardly recognized as the same person. I paint to encourage myself toward deeper love and optimism, to reconcile my heart with my head and to unlearn all of my fears.

N. Sri Ram

Love is the only force known to man which it is not possible to vanquish by any threat, however dire, in any ordeal, however terrible, to which it may be put.

Rita Rudner

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

Rodney Dangerfield

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations; we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

John Ray

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

William Somerset Maugham

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of things.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Love animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will soon perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Steve Bhaerman

Meditation: better to open the heart this way than have a surgeon do it.

Michael D. Robbins

Think before acting, and intend love before thinking.

Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. 

Jonathan Swift

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Julie Andrews

Love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

D.H. Lawrence

Those who go searching for love only find their own lovelessness. But the loveless never find love; only the loving find love and they never have to search for it.

Paul Ferrini

Don't make your ability to love yourself conditional on someone else's ability to love you.

Alan Cohen

• Just because a marriage (or anything) ends, doesn't mean it failed. If you loved, learned, and grew, and you would not make the same mistakes again, the experience was a huge success.

• When you find your beloved inside you, you will find your beloved beside you. 

• You own what you own not by money, force, or paper, but by your love for it and your heartfelt connection to it.

Chuck Spezzano

It's not love if it hurts.

Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Author unknown

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

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