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The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#marriage

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#marriage #pain #marriage

You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#marriage

I generally read every night befi=ore I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage. ↗

— Debbie Macomber

#marriage-husbands #reading #marriage

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... ↗

— André Maurois

#love #marriage #wisdom #life

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

This does not escape my notice, it is a context. I resent the fact of a context; my social status has shifted and no one is going to acknowldege it, that´s certain. I´m expected to be Brave and Rise Above. I dress for the role; I must look far better now that I did when I was married. I must look pulled together into a nice tight Hermès knot of self-containment. I don´t make the rules; I just do my best to follow them. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

There isn't much difference between "giving" and "leaving". While the former will ALWAYS come back to you, the latter will only do if it was meant to be yours in the first place. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#breaking-up #giving #heartbreak #leaving #love

Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?" "I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#marriage #love

In short, the Enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any "broader good" such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #the-enlightenment #love