Renewing a Marriage

"Marriage can never be renewed except by that which is always the source of all true marriages: that two human beings reveal the You to one another. It is of this that the You that is I for neither of them builds a marriage... Whoever wishes to renew a marriage on another basis is not essentially different from those who want to abolish it... Indeed, take the much discussed eroticism of our age and subtract everything that is really egocentric--in other words, every relationship in which one is not at all present to the other, but each uses the other only for self-enjoyment--what is left?"

- Martin Buber, I and Thou (Trans. by W. Kaufmann)

Topic: Quotations, Martin Buber, marriage.