Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. —Harlan Miller More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I love you no matter what you do, but do you have to do so much of it? —Jean Illsley Clarke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So a relationship is a great gift, not because it makes us happy — it often doesn't — but because any intimate relationship, if we view it as practice, is the clearest mirror we can find. —Charlotte Joko Beck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life. —Gertrude Stein More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good relationship comes down to conversation and sex and good manners, I suppose. And if you can continue your conversation and your bawdiness and your good manners for more than ten years, then you're doing awfully well. Conversation is the truest barometer in a relationship, and when you're not moved to open your heart to your lover, something's wrong that needs fixing. We all know that. And yet it's a fabulous gift, true conversation. The world is full of cant and rote and reflexive chatter; good talk is pure gold, and it's what lovers need from each other. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. —W.S. Merwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In 1927, when he began his courtship of Dorothy Thompson, Sinclair Lewis followed her across Europe, all the way to Moscow. At Moscow Airport . . . the press was waiting to greet him. "What brought you to Russia?" Lewis was asked. "Dorothy," he said. "We mean, what's your business here?" the press persisted. "Dorothy," said Lewis. "You misunderstand. What do you plan to see in Russia?" "Dorothy," said Lewis. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She was everything you say and more. She was the best of my heart for thirty years. She was the music heard faintly at the edge of sound. —Raymond Chandler More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other. —Karl Roberts, age five More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. —Barbara Sher More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it. —Marcus Aurelius More about this quote Tags: truth right ethics speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. —Emile Henry Gauvreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is like a ride in an amusement park. You think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, round and round; it has thrills and chills; it's brightly colored, loud, and fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question, "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people remember. They come back to us and say, "Hey don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." We kill those people. —Bill Hicks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email