#vows

If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#love

Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ozymandias #vows #love

The secret to a long and loving marriage is to choose, everyday, to be married. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#long-term-relationships #marriage #vows #love

I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a vague knowledge that there was a something called woman, but I never dwelt upon the subject; I was absolutely innocent. I saw my infirm old mother only twice a year; that was the extent of my connection with the outside world. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#religion #vows #women #religion

Men's vows are women's traitors! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#traitors #vows #women

Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#men

What I would say is that vows and rings don't change anything: the challenges are the same. Every day is just a conscious commitment to making the next day better. ↗

— America Ferrera

#better #challenges #change #commitment #conscious

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#forgotten #made #storms #vows

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. ↗

— Paul Getty

#any #chastity #eunuch #ever #homosexual

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#acknowledged #calling #day #had #house