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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#love #spontaneity #love

If everyone in the world did all he was capable of on his own plot of land, what a beautiful world it would be! ↗

— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#social #beauty

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent. ↗

— Robert Frost

#money

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#relationships #life

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow. ↗

— Graham Joyce

#love #marriage #relationships #love

أليس من الأفضل أن نهاجر بدلاً من أن نتزوج؟ فالزواج هجرة داخلية ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#migration #travel #marriage

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#relationships #marriage

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #marriage

Expect poison from the standing water. ↗

— William Blake

#middle-america #society #marriage

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#honesty #truth #men