Our Top Ten

1. “Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

2. “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
Elizabeth Gilbert

3. “If I get married, I want to be very married.”
Audrey Hepburn

4. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
Maya Angelou

5. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin

6. “I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.”
Nicholas Sparks

7. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu

8. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.”
Robert Fulghum

9. “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 all sorrow, to minister to each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
George Eliot

10. “A great marriage is not when the “perfect couple” comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
Dave Meurer