Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis StevensonRead
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Interpretation
Marriage requires effort and can be challenging, similar to the struggles of life.
This quote suggests that marriage, much like life itself, is filled with challenges and conflicts that require resilience and hard work. It highlights the misconception that marriage is always easy and blissful, represented by a 'bed of roses,' instead asserting that it often involves dealing with difficulties and striving for harmony, akin to a 'field of battle.'
In practice
Sharing this quote during a wedding speech to emphasize the importance of perseverance in marriage.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.
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The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
Very often we donβt go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isnβt so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become.
It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.
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