#age

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#am #another #balance #child #good

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda. ↗

— Polly Williams

#marriage

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#courage #either #entails #life

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#country #culture #everything #german #german people

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others. ↗

— Richard Kiel

#also #because #believed #blessed #bondage

I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man."-Amy Elliot Dunne ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#gone-girl #head-over-heals #love #marriage #relationships

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#marriage

How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed you of any originality of expression? ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ancient-greeks #atheism #boredom #brotherhood #cana

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age. ↗

— Toby Keith

#age #prayer #serenity #taught #us