Quotes of: Samesex-marriage Keyword

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation

A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.

After the Storm

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.

Mrs. Miniver

For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?

Matrimonio: Vivi o morti

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

The Mystery of Marriage: Meditations on the Miracle

It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein’s contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.

The Marriage Plot

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

The Marriage Plot

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

The Marriage Plot

In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.

The Marriage Plot

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard

Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.

One and a Half Wife

And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about marriage. That’s what knitting groups and sewing groups were for, wasn’t it? Commiserating about marriage.

Private Life

You don't your way to a new way of living. You your way to a new way of thinking.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem.

Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships

Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.

Why Did I Marry You Anyway?: Overcoming the Myths That Hinder a Happy Marriage