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To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom...

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Stichwörter: marriage

Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

Catherynne M. Valente

Stichwörter: marriage

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...we begin to understand marriage as the insistently practical union that it is. We begin to understand it, that is, as it is represented in the traditional marriage ceremony, those vows being only a more circumstantial and practical way of saying what the popular songs say dreamily and easily: "I will love you forever"--a statement that, in this world, inescapably leads to practical requirements and consequences because it proposes survival as a goal. Indeed, marriage is a union much more than practical, for it looks both to our survival as a species and to the survival of our definition as human beings--that is, as creatures who make promises and keep them, who care devotedly and faithfully for one another, who care properly for the gifts of life in this world.

Wendell Berry

Stichwörter: love marriage

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What good was living if a man didn’t have a family?

Michelle M. Pillow

Stichwörter: life love family marriage dragon-lords

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There is no greater place for damage (than marriage) because there is no greater place for glory.

John Eldredge

Stichwörter: marriage risk intimacy

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The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned.