Browsing Quotes With Tag: marriage (33)
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For children, love is a feeling. For adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts. Adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.
Speaker: Orson Scott CardSource: PathfinderPosted: 26 Mar 2014 at 11:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Well of AscensionPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If a man has the sense that God gave a common bivalve – and I often wonder if those clams know something we don’t – he should realize when he’s found a partner who compliments him, makes him happy, and vice versa. Because the right person isn’t solely someone who’s happy with you, it’s also someone who’s not afraid to be unhappy with you. There’s no such thing as a perfect couple. Anyone who claims otherwise is either drunk, on Ecstasy, lying, or all three, and – bet on it – has at some point imagined crushing his or her spouse with a giant suitcase or some other large, blunt object. But if you can refrain from doing it, and eventually laugh about it, you’re making out OK.
Speaker: Mark St. AmantSource: The Not-So-Dolce VitaPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Getting married and having a family is like emigrating. I used to live in the same country as my brother; I used to share his values and his tastes and his attitudes, and then I moved away. And even though I didn’t notice it happening, I started to speak with a different accent, and think differently, and even though I remembered my native land fondly, all traces of it had gone from me.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: How to Be GoodPosted: 05 Nov 2009 at 6:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision. Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
Speaker: Jared PolisPosted: 27 Sep 2009 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We who are
your closest friends
feel the time
has come to tell you
that every Thursday
we have been meeting,
as a group,
to devise ways
to keep you
in perpetual uncertainty
frustration
discontent and
torture
by neither loving you
as much as you want
nor cutting you adrift.
Your analyst is
in on it,
plus your boyfriend
and your ex-husband;
and we have pledged
to disappoint you
as long as you need us.
In announcing our
association
we realize we have
placed in your hands
a possible antidote
against uncertainty
indeed against ourselves.
But since our Thursday nights
have brought us
to a community
of purpose
rare in itself
with you as
the natural center,
we feel hopeful you
will continue to make unreasonable
demands for affection
if not as a consequence
of your disastrous personality
then for the good of the collective.Speaker: Phillip LopateSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes hidden from me
in daily custom and in trust,
so that I live by you unaware
as by the beating of my heart,Suddenly you flare in my sight,
a wild rose blooming at the edge
of thicket, grace and light
where yesterday was only shade,and once again I am blessed, choosing
again what I chose before.Speaker: Wendell BerrySource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This pause in time, within time… When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is possible only with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think to thank. These three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, a formula for enduring friendships, and a pattern for personal happiness.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nearly all marriages, even the happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
Speaker: OvidPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Speaker: Beverly NicholsPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The art of being wise is the ability to know what to overlook.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to get along with someone you have troubles with is to serve them.
Speaker: President HansonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think that if we had the capability to teach effectively this one doctrine [eternal families], it would capture the interest of millions of husbands and wives who love one another and who love their children, but whose marriage is in effect only ‘until death do you part.’
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If every man in this church who has been ordained to the Melchizedek priesthood were to qualify himself to hold a temple recommend and then were to go to the house of the Lord and renew his covenants in solemnity before God and witness, we would be a better people. There would be little or no infidelity among us. Divorce would almost entirely disappear. So much of heartache and heartbreak would be avoided. There would be a greater measure of peace and love and happiness in our homes. There would be fewer weeping wives and weeping children. There would be a greater measure of appreciation and of mutual respect among us. And I am confident the Lord would smile with greater favor upon us.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing exposes our true selves more than how we treat one another in the home.
Speaker: James E. FaustPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We can live together in the God-given pattern of marriage in accomplishing that of which we are capable if we will exercise discipline of self and refrain from trying to discipline our companion.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every woman is a daughter of God. You cannot offend her without offending Him.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When all is said and done there is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife, and nothing more portentous for good or evil than the unending consequences of marriage.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 11:20 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!