Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear.
So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.
-- Michael Jordan
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind.” -Hera, goddess of marriage
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married.""I'm not getting rid of Pooh.""See, there you go being antagonistic. Marriage means learning to compromise.""I didn't say I wouldn't compromise. I promise to take the ribbon out of her topknot before you walk her.
Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living to the dead;I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.
You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.
A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.
Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one.
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Marriage isn't about Winning - It's about Lasting
Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.
Judge Fowler imparted to the wedding pair, “Love, knocks ever so lightly and enters our hearts in a whisper. It can sometimes be heard loudest in a glance.
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.
You were kidnapped not?""I was kidnapped.""You were forced not into marriage?""I was forced into marriage.""You want not an annulment?""I want not an annulment.
After 46 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.
...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.
The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.
I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
Life, weddings, relationships, road trips, gardening, making out, haircuts: few of the fun things in life always go as expected.
I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.- Kristine
Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.
Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.
All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary.
Are you her boyfriend?”...No, I’m her fiancé.” Nate said.We’ve been promised to each other since birth,” Summer added.Our wedding isn’t until March.
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...
There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.
Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
Marriage is more about snore strips and flannel nightgowns than candlelight dinners.
Marriages maybe made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.
Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness.
My daughter ! Marriage is not a career is just a status, build your own life and be financially independent if you want a good and happy life
their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.
Not every marital union is going to be a meaningful and fulfilling experience.Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.
I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy.
There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.
Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.
Mutual respect, insistence, selfless giving and will power by Oxytocin, intelligence and wisdom by Acetylcholine, devotion by Dopamine, they make all the differences in relationship, love and marriage.
Love is a marriage of two hearts which may last forever in some people's minds.
A marriage engagement is based on two people only, others are to bless and congratulate them; but maintaining that engagement is the responsibility of each of the two!
So many people spend far too much time focused on the wedding day instead of the actual marriage itself.
A marriage is a very secret place.
Unfortunately, he still hadn’t asked for my number, or a date, or my hand in marriage, and my drink was getting low.
She tugged warningly on his shirt. "I am serious! Are you going to marry me, Sean? Finally?"He smiled, and the light of his smile filled his eyes. "Damn it, Elle! Will you not let me take the lead? Ladies do not propose marriage!"~Sean O'Neill & Eleanor de Warenne
So... I've been thinking about starting a wedding planning Business... You know, like an arranged marriage sort of thing. So... who wants to be in the presence of True Love??
To lovers out there…Some people their beauty , body, looks, money,cars and jobs got them into relationship or marriage , but their character and behavior fails to keep them into the relationship or marriage.
Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.
Maybe we could, um, go sit in the truck?" he said, but even as he said it, it sounded so dumb. And not exactly the way he wanted her to remember a marriage proposal.
Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.
Having a child together doesn't guarantee a future wedding. Never let your present partner suffer because of your baby mama or baby daddy. Careful of comprising your future happiness for an 'X you can't solve.
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
In our modern day and age, words like faithfulness, lifelong commitment, and covenant are not very popular. Instead, we prefer words such as soul mate, true love, and happiness. But the truth is, these feelings-based words do not produce the type of enduring marriages that we long for.
If your dating relationship is sustained by sin, what will sustain your marriage?
I'm not having my wedding day spoiled by a couple of horny bridesmaids who can't decide whether they want to shag or throw up over each other.
The only ‘problem’ that most marriages have managed to solve is that of not being married.
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage.
Life isn't about Wedding and having Children, It is an Adventurous Opportunity to do,What other living creatures can't.
There is no destination in marriage. It is the journey that matters.
I caused the marriage break up.I caused the relationship break up.I caused the exam failure.I prompted the problems I am facingI should have studied better at school.I should have married her.I lost everything.Whatever it is forgive yourself and move on!
Love is not enough, you also need hope and faith for your marriage to stand firm.
To lovers out there …An expensive wedding doesn’t mean or guarantee happiness. Marrying someone rich or beautiful doesn't mean or guarantee that you will be loved. You must be in love first, before you get married. You don’t get married to be In love.
(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)
With a lump forming in his throat, he thoughtabout all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More thananything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw uplike his dad when it came to love and marriage.
Marketing is the marriage of business and creativity. The relationship is enhanced by the occasional affair with science.
Most relationships and marriages that are older than 3 years owe their not having ended to compromise, trust, forgiveness, etc., good communication, and great lies.
The night sky should not be scary, it should always be beautiful. I imagine my marriage will be like this and that of the void, that I will love my wife when she dies and that it will love me back long after mine. The blank night sky faces me, with my back flattened out by another blackness.
The old antiques dealer whispers to him that the secret of freedom and happiness lies in self-control and in a marriage between knowledge, will and power.
If the institution of marriage is not the foundational steps to sainthood in our lifetime, then nothing is.
It is never just a kiss.It is the marriageof two mindsthat have decidedthey can standeach other‘s arrogance.
Love is a marriage of two hearts which may last forever in some people’s minds.
Maybe she is wrong about her marriage. Perhaps there is love, a love defined by marriage. Devoted, spiteful love.
It wasn't a wedding a small girl dreams of - the white lace dress and a flowing veil. There were no bridesmaids or a symphony orchestra or long trails of white roses. But what does a small girl know of real love?
If you want to move beyond the crossroads, then we first have to embrace the values of this country. If you want to build faith,, then we first have to rebuild marriages and families.
After a point, all marriages become boring, some are peacefully boring and some are annoyingly boring.
Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations.""Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice."But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.
This is real life and you have one shot at it. So why mess your one shot at life by staying in an unhappy, unhealthy and toxic marriage?
Wedding is not the Marriage, it's a process for it. It's the Honeymoon that kick starts the Marriage.
To lovers out there…Some people their beauty , body, looks, money and jobs got them into relationship or marriage , but their character and behavior fails to keep them into relationship or marriage.
Before marriage, people write in blood for their love but after marriage people are not ready to shed blood for their love
To lovers out there…..Marriage is not a justification of you being an innocent or a good person. It is note an achievement, but it is a blessing especially if you are marrying the right person for the right reasons.
Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.
Married people use a successful marriage as an advert for marriage, and a failed marriage as an advert for a good husband or wife.
Some marriages end before the wife has had enough time to fall in love with the husband.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
