#ness

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love #love

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#love

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblance is not striking; but I think I could place them in such a view. You will allow that in both man has the advantage of choice, woman only the power of refusal; that in both it is an engagement between man and woman, formed for the advantage of each; and that when once entered into, they belong exclusively to each other till the moment of its dissolution; that it is their duty each to endeavor to give the other no cause for wishing that he or she had bestowed themselves elsewhere, and their best interest to keep their own imaginations from wandering towards the perfections of their neighbors, or fancying that they should have been better off with any one else. ↗

— Jane Austen

#faithfulness #marriage #matrimony #faith

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ↗

— Simone Signoret

#love #marriage #possessiveness #love

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#rudeness #marriage

Not married until 33, Abraham Lincoln said, "A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that cannot hurt me. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#singleness #marriage

You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#happiness #illness #love #marriage #safety

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#free-your-mind #inspiring-quotes #mindfulness #nature #peace-of-mind

In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand. ↗

— Will Barnes

#inspirational #personal-development #spiritual #inspirational