“The issue of who will throw the garbage won’t be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won’t be funny then.”
Source: You're Getting Married Soon... Now What?
“Afterward, he would leave her, and he would go to sleep in his own home. "It's hard to understand," he would tell Lila whenever she would press his gently on the subject, "but with us Arabs, a man can come and go, and his wife will not say a word. She'll notice the length of his absences, but she won't press him or ask for explanations. For his part, so long as he acts modestly and doesn't show off his lover in plain view, then he will not bring shame on his family. /”
Source: About the Night
“Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly long cord when measured in comparison with any other undertaking in a person’s life, from cradle to the grave if you will. These intimate associations create a bond of love, affection, goodwill, and joy that we seek to duplicate when we marry and begin creating our extended families.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Sheba has often told me that she thinks there's a rhythm to married life, an ebb and flow in the pleasure that a couple take in one another. The rhythm varies from couple to couple, she says. For some couples, the see-saw of affections takes place over a week. For others, the cycle is lunar. But all couples sense this about their life together - the way in which their interest in one another builds up and recedes. The happiest couples are the ones whose cycles interact in such a way that when one of them is feeling jaded, the other is ardent, and there is never a vacuum.”
Source: What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
Source: The Egg
“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence.”
Source: My Phantom Husband
“Just look at that, what kind of worldly life has arisen with the coming together of these two, jada (inanimate matter; the non-Self) and chetan (life energy; the Self)! Then one gets married, he becomes a son-in-law, a father-in-law, a brother-in-law, a paternal uncle-in-law, a maternal uncle-in-law! Just look at the different kinds of interferences he has created?!”
Source: Avoid Clashes!
“Yet, the entire world is obligatory. Even getting married is obligatory. One cannot do without getting married.”
Source: Aptavani-5
“Do not live life without a spark of love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.”
Source: Nine Thoughts That Can Change Your Marriage: Because a Great Relationship Doesn't Happen by Accident