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If your love is pure, simple, and good, you
will not be a slave to anything... Thomas A Kempis When married people tell me their love has died, I sometimes think
it may be more accurate to say that they have killed it. I am not thinking of violent, brutal acts of dark betrayal. I mean
that the flame of love has gradually waned and guttered out from sheer neglect...David Mace The first duty of love is to listen...Paul Tillich _________________________________________________________________________________________________
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that
he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves
success in marriage.
Sidney J. Harris
Identify each circumstance
through love, not fear. Jo-anne Rohne
A Sad Split The drama played out in a nest of bald eagles monitored by a web-cam. A beloved eagle family,
viewed by many via the Internet was breaking up. After raising several offspring in previous seasons, the parents again laid
new eggs in the spring. But then a young female invaded their happy home. When Dad started cavorting with her, Mom disappeared
and the life in the abandoned eggs died. In an Internet chat room, questions and accusations
flew wildly. Everyone who loved the pair was distraught. Biologists warned the amateur eagle enthusiasts not to attribute
human values to birds. But everyone did. We all wanted the original couple to reunite. Everyone seemed to "know"
that the family unit is sacred....Julie Ackerman Link
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Building a good marriage and building a good log fire
are similar in many ways. You build a fire with paper and kindling, and all at once it goes up in a brilliantly burning blaze.
Then the primary blaze burns down and you wonder if the fire will fizzle out and leave you in the dark. You blow on it and
fan it for all you are worth. Sometimes smoke billows out and it almost chokes you, but if the materials are good and if you
invest enough energy and interest in maintaining it, soon the big solid logs catch, and your fire takes on new qualities. Josephine Lowman
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