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If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail! ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#planning #wordplay #inspirational

A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#marriage #marriage

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#marriage

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#marriage #support #survival #test #marriage

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who ↗

— Chetan Bhagat

#marriage

I understand now, why sometimes, you have to lose happiness to find it again… ↗

— Jennifer J. Hayes

#love-hurts #romance-novels #love

It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I’m getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don’t know what will happen to me. - Polly ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#love

People where you live grow five thousand roses in one garden...yet they don't find what they are looking for. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love #rose-garden #love

It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#love #rose #love

How you’ve always felt?” “I’ve loved you my entire life,” he said, eyes locked on mine. “And I would love you for the rest of my life if you’d let me, Syd. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#j-lynn #jennifer-l-armentrout #love