All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Goethe
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it Woody Allen
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering
It was only in the last few weeks I developed the spine to look myself deeply and passionately in the eye if I fail at something.
Why is it that our relationship fail? Divorce does not discriminate. No matter who you are or where you live it is fair to say you will know someone who has divorced. For 21 years friends wondered how Lauren and I stay together, with so many divorces around us. And a good friend of ours last year observed, 'It's simple. They have a lot in common. They're both in love with the same (wo)man ... (mmmwwaaaa vs. Hyacinth ;-)' This goes a long way, I think, toward explaining why I have discovered emotional minefields, motivational swamps and creative wildernesses ... In a strange way, Clint Eastwood sentiment rings deep inside me: ‘There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.’
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