"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."
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"Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not."
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"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."
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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."
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"Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved."
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"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."
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"They do not love that do not show their love."
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"Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first."
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"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
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"We loved with a love that was more than love."
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"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
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"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."
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"I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia."
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"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."
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"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
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"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution."
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"Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union."
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"The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open."
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"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
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"A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves."
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