For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: love imagination imagination relationship boredom sentiment duty staleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: love others kindness people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor marriage wives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: love time lying dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? —Anita Loos More about this quote Tags: love romance food middle age fatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: love old age marriage conversation talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During his stint as host of a show called You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx interviewed many participants. On one occasion he interviewed a Mrs. Story, who had given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband," Mrs. Story said enthusiastically. "I like my cigar, too," said Groucho, "but I take it out once in a while. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: love relationships marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My great-grandfather . . . came to Washington with the Union Army during the Civil War. He stopped at my great grandmother's house to get some water and she was the one who handed him the glass of water. He put his hand over hers, and then he got off the horse, and after that, they got married. —Helen Tenchi More about this quote Tags: love perception marriage water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Her clothes have no buttons. There are two missing from my jacket. This lady and I are almost of the same religion. —Guillaume Apollinaire More about this quote Tags: commonality religion similarity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: love identity girls stupidity prettiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. —John Updike More about this quote Tags: world culture ending continuation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. —Albert Ellis More about this quote Tags: life problems blame control destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. —Sylvia Plath More about this quote Tags: existence heart listening breathing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. —Doug Larson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email