#ok

I was acting like a child. Wanting his full attention. His declarations of love. I wanted to be his little princess, I guess. The one he worshiped and adored. Well, life's not like that. And after thinking it through, I actually wouldn't want it to be. We aren't put together in a marriage to stroke each other's ego. Marriage is a partnership. A blending of two lives working together. That's where the commitment comes in. It's a determination of the head - not the heart. No, I shouldn't say it that way. It still involves the heart. It still is based on love, but it's new kind of love. A mature love. One that doesn't ask, "What will you do for me?" but rather "What can I do for you?" or "What can we do for each other? ↗

— Janette Oke

#the-tender-years #life

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#broken #build #children #easier #repair

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. ↗

— Voltaire

#men

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#book-lovers #whiskey #men

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. ↗

— Mark Lawrence

#clothes #die #empire #king #little

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#broken #destroyed #entwine #federico-garcia-lorca #love

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#poetry #men

People—especially men—don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may quit.” With a broken heart. As if she'd read her mind, Abuelita frowned and scolded, “Hearts mend, but lost chances are gone forever. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#broken-heart #carpe-diem #men

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic? ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty

Books are dead men talking. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men