Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament: you give up your personal simplicity to participate. And you are not giving to the other person; you are giving to the relationship. Because you are not giving to the other person, it is not impoverishing — it is life-building, life-fostering, enriching. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees. —Pablo Neruda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it. —Jane Smiley More about this quote Tags: reason desire principles motivation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: mother Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. . . . We amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. —John Cheever More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love's a fire, but whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you never can tell. —Joan Crawford More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love. —Butch Hancock More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of our selves. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you need is sustained outrage. . . . There's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: authority respect outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. —James Baldwin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O, let America be America again — / The land that never has been yet — / And yet must be. —Langston Hughes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Written history is, in fact, nothing of the kind; it is the fragmentary record of the often inexplicable actions of innumerable bewildered human beings, set down and interpreted according to their own limitations by other human beings, equally bewildered. —Veronica Wedgwood More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people. —Terry Pratchett More about this quote Tags: history people evil good flawed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This nation is founded on blood like a city on swamps / yet its dream has been beautiful and sometimes just / that now grows brutal and heavy as a burned-out star. —Marge Piercy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email