~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~

I love you not only for what you are,

but for what I am when I am with you.

~ Victor Hugo ~

What a grand thing, to be loved!

What a grander thing still, to love!

~ William Shakespeare ~

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

~ Sophocles ~

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

~ Thoreau ~

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

 ~ The Bible : 1 Corinthians ~

Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things.

~ William Shakespeare ~

No sooner met but they looked;

No sooner looked but they loved;

No sooner loved but they sighed;

No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason;

No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

~ Robert Frost ~

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

~ Anthony Storr ~

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship-a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

~ Victor Hugo ~

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

~ Albert Camus ~

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

~ Carl Jung ~

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

~ Euripides ~

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

~ Kathleen Norris ~

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

~ Pearl S. Buck ~

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

~ Anton Chekkov ~

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

~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

~ George Elliot ~

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they

are joined... to strengthen each other... to be at one with each other

in silent unspeakable memories.

 ~ Ovid ~

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.