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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Tom Robbins
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are the utmost exemplary, exquisite, delicate and most magnificent individual I have ever encountered--and even that is an understatement.
3.
One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
Sophocles
"A single emotion can dispel all the burdens of existence: that feeling is affection."
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A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.
Edgar Cayce
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
The key to a successful union is not necessarily how well you get along, but rather how you manage your differences.
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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Ronald Reagan
The greatest joy for a man is to approach his home after a long day, eagerly anticipating the sound of his arrival.
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
Jackie Kennedy
The initial union is bound by affection, the second by finance, and the third for friendship.
8.
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
When loving individuals offer their solace and sympathy, it can help to restore your equilibrium.
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey
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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey Hepburn
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
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I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
Dorothy Parker
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
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A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
Richard Bach
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He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor
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My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.
William Shakespeare
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We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
George Carlin
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I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Frank Carson
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Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland
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I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid.
Piper Laurie
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Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
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We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.
Walter Rauschenbusch
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
Helen Rowland
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The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
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When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
Maxim Gorky
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The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Peter Ustinov
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
Paul McCartney
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
Ina Garten
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A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
John Mayer
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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
Mark Twain
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I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.
J. M. W. Turner
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang
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A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
Kenny Loggins