Words of Wisdom on Relationships
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between to shore of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. ~ Kahlil Gibran
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."
-Anna Louise Strong
"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."
-J. Krishnamurti
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
Especially good for polyamorous folks
The more you love, the more you can love and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.
--Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Gaelic Wedding Blessing
Mile failte dhuit le d'bhre/id,
Fad do re/ gun robh thu slan.
Mo/ran laithean dhuit is sith,
Le d'mhaitheas is le d'ni bhi fas.
Translated as:
"A thousand welcomes to you with your marriage kerchief, may you be healthy all your days. May you be blessed
with long life and peace, may you grow old with
goodness, and with riches."
This is attributed to the Rev. Donald MacLeod, minister of Duirinish, Skye, Scotland c. 1760. Supplied by Christopher Lau, University of Calgary
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
--Pearl Buck
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
--William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet cxvi
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
--Portuguese-Jewish Wedding Ceremony
You are now taking into your care and keeping the happiness of the one person in all the world whom you love best. You are adding to your life not only the affection of each other, but also the companionship and blessing of a deep trust as well. You are agreeing to share strength, responsibilities and to share love.
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
--George Eliot
May your marriage bring you all of the exquisite excitement a marriage should bring. And may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.
Marriage is not only a commitment between lovers, it is also an agreement between two friends. Allow each other time to be an individual, respect each other's wishes as well as their dreams.
