#ma

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you’re committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage. ↗

— Kathleen Norris

#seven-year-itch #spirituality #faith

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#charity #enemy #every #every man #executioner

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#best #gifts #god #man #put

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#idea #life #long #loved #made

I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#cry #dean #did #finally #get

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#blood #count #eyes #gang #lend

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. ↗

— Robert Browning

#beast #distinctive #finds #god #hopes

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ↗

— Robert Browning

#exceed #grasp #heaven #his #man

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do. ↗

— Robert Browning

#does #man #would

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? ↗