Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Interpretation
Marriage is a challenging journey that involves both risks and rewards.
The quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton likens marriage to an adventure and also to the challenging nature of war. This comparison suggests that marriage entails significant challenges and struggles, similar to a battle, but it also implies that it can be a thrilling and worthwhile journey, full of discoveries and growth, requiring courage and commitment from both partners.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might say, 'As Gilbert K. Chesterton wisely noted, marriage is an adventure, reminding us of the courage we need in our journey together.'
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
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