#marriage

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person. ↗

— Jan Struther

#life

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#god #marriage #life

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#event #horrible #life #marriage #painful

He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how often he disappointed her in the big things. It was never intentional. They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#relationships #life

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#marriage #relationships #life

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#marriage #men #women #love

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#man #marriage #poetry #woman #love

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#love #marriage #passion #love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. ... We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children .... [p. 15] ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

Todo buen matrimonio es un territorio secreto, un espacio necesariamente en blanco en el mapa de la sociedad. Lo que los demás no saben de él es lo que lo hace tuyo. ↗

— Stephen King

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