#ect

If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite. ↗

Two people can only live as one when each is prepared to give and receive trust and understanding. Above that lies respect. Without respect for how the other feels, no marriage is worthwhile. ↗

— Helen Hollick

#marriage #respect #trust #understanding #love

(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out. ↗

— Alessandra Torre

#love #love-advice #marriage #marriage-advice #needs

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ↗

— Herman Melville

#men

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#men #my-story #respect #men

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#men #love

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#noir #men

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#reason #responsibility #men

He was being about as protective as a can-opener. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#protectiveness #men

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that. ↗