a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
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a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.
True love stories never have endings.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.
It was just enough to sit there without words.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
One word _x000D_ _x000D_ Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:_x000D_ _x000D_ That word is love.
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