#age

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. ↗

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

#love #marriage #romance #inspirational

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#children #epiphany #inspiration #mirror-images #inspirational

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate. ↗

— Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#infidelity #marriage #unconditonal-love #forgiveness

Jesus tells Peter to forgive seventy times seven times, not because the person we forgive will it that many times, but because resentment can have such a grip on our hearts that we need to forgive that often for our own healing. ↗

— Justin Davis

#faith #marriage #faith

Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown. ↗

— Cheryl Nielsen

#courage #divorce #change

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #childish #clothes #clothing #create

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#any #jealous #made #matter #page

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. ↗

— Milton Berle

#forgiveness

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#encouraged #even #even now #future #made

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp. ↗

— Juan Ruiz

#cowardly #crude #eloquence #gives #idle