Rajneesh Quotes

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

The only thing that keeps me in Miami is my husband.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

I want a man in my life, not in my house.

You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

I want to find a man and have a family.

I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

Real love is more than a physical feeling. If there's even the slightest doubt in your head about a guy, then forget about it. It's not real.

I have a lady, she's a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We're on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we're not on the same page we'll move forward with it. We're interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person's vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!

Love is so much better when you're not married.

Marriage has made me safer.

Monogamy is desirable for many reasons, especially in creating a stable, emotionally connected home for children. But judging from centuries of human behavior, it is also a very difficult standard to meet.