#marriage

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time. ↗

— Allan Wolf

#struggle #wisdom #marriage

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#gay #man #stupid #woman #marriage

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went. ↗

— Jeff Beck

#marriage #music #marriage

No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available were all imperfect. If you chose to be with someone, you often wanted to be alone. If you chose to be alone, you often felt the unbearable need for another body - not necessarily for sex, but just to rub your foot, to sit across the table, to drop his things around the room in a way that was maddening but still served as a reminder that he was there. ↗

— Meg Wolitzer

#relationships #women #marriage

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#marriage #philosophy #inspirational

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals. ↗

— Christian Cantrell

#marriage #relationship #inspirational

I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have found the person with whom they wish to spend the rest of their lives—a question of which no man or woman can be automatically certain. When one is certain that one’s choice is final, then marriage is, of course, a desirable state. But this does not mean that any relationship based on less than total certainty is improper. I think the question of an affair or a marriage depends on the knowledge and the position of the two persons involved and should be left up to them. Either is moral, provided only that both parties take the relationship seriously and that it is based on values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#marriage #values #love

the emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #marriage #love

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to become his wife, he is not just making an affirmation of love; he is also negating his love for anyone else. In that one act by which he chooses her, he rejects all that is not her. There is no other real way in which to prove we love a thing than by choosing it in preference to something else. Word and signs of love may be, and often are, expressions of egotism or passion; but deeds are proofs of love. We can prove we love our Lord only by choosing Him in preference to anything else. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#god #love #marriage #love