1. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

2. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

3. I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

4. I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.

5. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

6. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

7. Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

8. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

9. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

10. What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

11. Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

12. The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

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2. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.

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3. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

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4. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

5. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he’ll fall asleep before you finish saying it. – Helen Rowland

6. When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell

7. What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. – Leo Tolstoy

8. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. – Nora Ephron

9. A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

- André Maurois

10. The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

- Andrew Sullivan

11. Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

- Bertrand Russell

12. I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

- Rita Rudner