#marriage

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter ↗

— Gary L. Thomas

#marriage

I know that now probably isn't the time. But I have been here for the worse, and I want to be here for the rest. ↗

— Keira Kroft

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Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#love #marriage #relationships #life

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man ↗

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

#life #life-lessons #marriage #life

On Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday: "These two simply appreciate one another more than either of them appreciates anyone else, and they would rather be appreciated by one another more than by anyone else. They just are at home with one another, whether or not they can ever live together under the same roof -- that is, ever find a roof they can live together under. ↗

— Stanley Cavell

#desire #dialogue #love #marriage #remarriage

You wanted a wife but I was still a girl. ↗

— Kate Chisman

#love #love-story #lovers #marriage #marriage-proposal

There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: "Irreconcilable Differences." JFK and Jackie, anyone at all. It´s built into the man-woman thing. What kind of paltry reason is that? "Insanity" is another box to be checked on the divorce petition, the only alternative to "Irreconcilable Differences." I would like to check it. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding. ↗

— Andrew Sean Greer

#hiding-things #mind #secrets #marriage