#age

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#marriage #marriage

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body. ↗

— Myron Uhlberg

#language #sign #beauty

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#love

Phillipa, my heart, my blood, my everything, will you for God’s and my sake marry me? ↗

— Suzanne Enoch

#propose-marriage #love

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#desert #marriage #war #marriage

I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #insane #marriage #marriage

And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#love #marriage #love

Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#trust #waiting #wondering #love

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#marriage