"We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on emotions
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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Post, Laurens Van du on adversity
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"Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor."

Proverb on honor
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"The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss."

Kempis, Thomas on weakness
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"For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship."

Beatty, Warren on relationship
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"Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out."

Richardson, Nick on love
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"Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise."

Lerner, Gerda on relationship
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"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on relationship
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"It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage."

Wilde, Oscar on divorce
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"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on hope
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"For a working definition of forgiveness, I think of it as restoring love."

Thomas, Charles on forgiveness
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"We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."

Butler, Samuel on forgiveness   

"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."

Shaw, George Bernard on marriage   

"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."

Adams, Bryan on thoughts and thinking
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

Dickens, Charles on abstinence
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"Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise."

Lindner, Robert on conformity
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"Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love."

Kempis, Thomas on love
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"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self."

Mccant, Jerry on marriage
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"I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work."

Diana, Princess of Wales on marriage
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

Dumas, Alexandre on happiness
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on promises
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on marriage
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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."

Elton, Ben on love
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"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on marriage
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship."

Angelis, Barbara De on commitment
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"Forgiveness is the oil of relationships."

Mcdowell, Josh on forgiveness
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"An atheist is a person who has no invisible means of support"

Huxley, Aldous on atheism
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"Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose."

Knowles, F. M. on marriage   

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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"One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage."

Unknown, Source on marriage