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Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved. ↗

— Maggie O'Farrell

#marriage #love

Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished; polygamy was legalized; marriage was made compulsory for women. Those who dissented faced execution. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#christianity #reformation #marriage

Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws. ↗

— Mary Jo Putney

#marriage

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may-no matter how generous and good his nature- one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#shame #marriage

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#marriage #women #marriage

وأخيراً انتصر الحب.. تزوجا،وكان علي أحد شهود الزواج..انتهت الرسالة برأي علي الشخصي:تساءل: أليس الزواج هو الانسجام الكامل بين الشاب والفتاة، الرغبة اللامحدودة بالانصهار معاً، واليقين التام بأن السعادة هي في الحياةالمشتركة.. الى آخر العمر ؟.. ↗

— ناديا شومان

#marriage

We get paid for bringing value to the market place. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#get #market #market place #paid #place

I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it... I can't eat another bite. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#fool #marraige #married #men #o-hara

Marriage is a million piece puzzle; a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated.   It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation; a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#endurance #marriage #perserverance #resoluteness #reward

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#inspirational #marriage #friendship