The central issue in marriage is not well-being or happiness; it is salvation. Marriage involves not only a man and a woman who happily love each other and raise offspring together, but rather two people who are trying to individuate, to find their souls salvation.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

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.

Harville Hendrix

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives
that is the miracle of marriage.


M. Denis De Rougemont

Your heart is not living until it has experienced pain. The pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

True love hurts. It always has to hurt. It must be painful to love someone, painful to leave them, you might have to die for them. When people marry they have to give up everything to love each other.

Mother Teresa

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.

C. G. Jung

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

Mechtild of Magdeburg

May it be O Lord, that I seek not so much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love; because it is in giving oneself that one receives; it is in forgetting oneself that one is found.

St Francis of Assisi

O Love must be learned,
and learned again and again;
there is no end to it.


Katherine Anne Porter

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.


Peter Ustinov

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Paul Tillich

Lift up your eyes and look on one another
in innocence born of complete forgiveness
of each others illusions.


A Course in Miracles

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

Robert Muller

Let us be kinder to one another.


Aldous Huxley

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish,
but that they cease to love.


W. Somerset Maugham

Love becomes the ultimate answer
to the ultimate human question.


Archibald Macleish

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Rumi

Love is not a problem, not an answer to a question. Love knows no question. It is the ground all and the questions arise only insofar as we are divided, absent, estranged, alienated from that ground.

Thomas Merton

Where love is, what can be wanting?
Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?


St Augustine

And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of love for all and you will draw love to you from all.

Ralph Waldo Trine

I give you a new commandment, Love one another as I have loved you that you too should love one another.

John 13:34

The words of Jesus, "Love one another as I have loved you", must be not only a light to us but a flame that consumes the self in us.

Mother Teresa

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

C. S. Lewis

Do you love your Creator?
Then love your fellow beings first.


The Koran

The fountain stream of love rises in the love for an individual, but spreads and falls in universal love.

Hazrat Inayat Khan