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“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

“Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.”

“This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“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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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters”

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Author:Alfred Russel Wallace

“To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.”

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Book:Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage

Source: Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage

“Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.”

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“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.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir