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Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
Two persons who unite their lives to help each other toward divine realization are founding their marriage on the right basis: unconditional friendship.
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The most essential requirement for a happy marriage is soul unity - similarity of spiritual ideals and goals, implemented by a practical willingness to attain those goals by study, effort, and self-discipline.
Discipline | Effort | Goals | Happy | Ideals | Marriage | Self | Soul | Study | Unity |
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci NULL
Every marriage is, in itself and by itself, a sacrament.
Marriage |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
It is not strange at all that the spread of divorce in a society is accompanied by a diminishing of public morality in all sectors… True love does not exist if it is not faithful. And it cannot exist if it is not honest. Neither can it be in the concrete vocation of matrimony if there is no full promise that lasts until death. Only indissoluble matrimony will be firm and lasting support for the familial community.
Death | Love | Matrimony | Morality | Promise | Public | Society | Will | Society |
Rainer Maria Rilke, full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
Sexual boredom, that predator of marriages, is generally ascribed to overfamiliarity; but I think it mighty more aptly be blamed on the lack or failure of true intimacy... Sex thrives on the dynamics between novelty and intimacy... What is inalienably shared... for brief encounters, in which little is genuinely discovered or given, tend to emphasize people’s sameness rather than their individuality, and hence to obliterate the novelty that is sought. Intimacy, which demands time and trust, is available almost exclusively through marriage and long friendship.
Failure | Individuality | Little | Marriage | Novelty | People | Time | Trust | Novelty | Failure | Think |
Robert Quillen, fully Verni Robert Quillen
The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is "ours".
Marriage |
Robert Quillen, fully Verni Robert Quillen
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Stephen Covey, fully Stephen Richards Covey
Creating the unity to run an effective business or a family or a marriage requires great personal strength and courage. No amount of technical administrative skill in laboring for the masses can make up for lack of nobility of personal character in developing relationships. It is a t a very essential, one-on-one level, that we live the primary laws of love and life.
Business | Character | Courage | Family | Life | Life | Love | Marriage | Nobility | Skill | Strength | Unity | Business |
Suzanne LaFollette, fully Suzanne Clara La Follette
For man, marriage is regarded as a station; for women, as a vocation.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
Friendship is the marriage of souls, and this marriage is subject to divorce.
Marriage |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
I believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings. If it has not often been realized hitherto, that is chiefly because husband and wife have regarded themselves as each other’s policeman. If marriage is to achieve its possibilities, husbands and wives must learn to understand that whatever the law may say, in their private lives they must be free.
Husband | Important | Law | Marriage | Wife | Learn | Understand |
Evolving our consciousness is not something we do only for ourselves - it is something we also do for others...for all others, and for the earth. Because we open up and let our body and mind feel the ties with others and with nature, we change ourselves, and change others around us. When a sufficient number of people pray or meditate together, or find another path to evolve their consciousness, other people are affected as well. More sick people heal, divorce and suicide rates drop, crime and violence diminish. When many people open up, a powerful force develops - a leap of consciousness takes place.
Body | Change | Consciousness | Crime | Force | Mind | People | Suicide |