The philosopher Odo Marquard has noted a correlation in the German language between the word zwei, which means 'two,' and the word zweifel, which means 'doubt' - suggesting that two of anything brings the automatic possibility of uncertainty to our l...
A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heart-broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, 'I have wonderful news!' and I was like, 'I don't really want to hear wonderful news ...
And when I had finished painting & looked at that poor leatherjacket which now lay dead on the table I began to wonder whether, as each fish died, the world was reduced in the amount of love that you might know for such a creature. Whether there was ...
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adul...
Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and moves on. Without asking, Wonder often brings along ...
When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful and turns a blind eye. [Jack] Gilbert takes this middle way, a...
There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
Sometimes the best gifts aren't convenient at the time.
There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you’re having and the one you’re not.
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.
All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
