Quotes About Becoming One In Marriage

#1. Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#2. It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective ... When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe. - Author: Hilari Bell

#3. It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois. - Author: Albert Einstein

#4. This is not to say that becoming a father automatically makes you a good father. Fatherhood, like marriage, is a constant struggle against your limitations and self-interests. But the urge to be a perfect father is there, because your child is a perfect gift. - Author: Kent Nerburn

#5. Then when she really thought about it she realized she'd been becoming different people for as long as she could remember but had never really noticed, or had put it down to moods, or marriage, or motherhood. The problem was that she'd thought that at a certain point she would be a finished product. - Author: Anna Quindlen

#6. As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference. - Author: Helene D. Gayle

#7. The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters). - Author: Gloria Steinem

#8. All due respect to the Resurrection, but two-becoming-one might be the greatest miracle ever. - Author: Jen Hatmaker

#9. It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability. - Author: Lisa Kleypas

#10. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh. - Author: Justin Buzzard

#11. Physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. - Author: Bruce Lee

#12. I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. - Author: Indra Nooyi

#13. Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it - Author: Nicholas Sparks

#14. This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates. - Author: Daniel Tosh

#15. Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. - Author: Abraham Maslow

#16. Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes. - Author: Igor Babailov

#17. If the world market believed that we were serious about energy independence and we were going to utilize all of our own existing resources, the speculators would stop speculating up they start speculating down as we get our own oil out of the ground. - Author: Herman Cain

#18. The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. - Author: Jeffrey Kluger

#19. With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other. - Author: Edith Wharton

#20. I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived. - Author: John Henrik Clarke

#21. Is the pen really mightier than the sword? I suppose that depends on how sharp the pen is, and the strength of the warrior wielding it. - Author: Max Hawthorne

#22. Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away. - Author: Mark Twight

#23. Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that. - Author: Rob Lowe

#24. I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. - Author: Seth Grahame-Smith

#25. Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. - Author: Kay Goodstadt

#26. Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect. - Author: Gail Carriger

#27. The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow - Author: Isabel Allende

#28. Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide. - Author: John Thaw

#29. It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time. - Author: Henry B. Eyring

#30. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife. - Author: Carew Papritz