Rajneesh Quotes

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Marriage is obsolete and a trap.

Marriage is too much like slavery not to be involved in its fate.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

The first bond of society is marriage.

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

I'm a person who's been in a long-term relationship. It's not surprising that a lot of my friends - whether they're in same-sex relationships or not, whether they're married officially or just in a long-term relationship - have really interesting and various stages in their relationship. My life is looking at these friendships and saying, "Wait a minute, isn't this something really interesting? How can I explore this?"

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.

Marriage can be complicated.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife."

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.