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
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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.
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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