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When you can’t reach the standards of another’s heart you must ask yourself, "What value do I put on my soul that I would subject myself to such rejection? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#relationships #romance #love

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #love

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#marriage #love

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #marriage #nicholas-sparks #the-wedding #love

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

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever. ↗

— William Goldman

#the-princess-bride #weddings #marriage

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#marriage

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret it either way; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it; believe a woman or believe her not, you will regret it either way; believing a woman or not believing her, you will regret it both ways. Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#laughter #marriage #philosophy #regret #women

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