"When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband."

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Madeleine L'Engle

#Husband Quotes #Father Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager. Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "No, Majesty. I'm terrified of heights." "Oh." His polite tone had returned. "I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction." He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him. "Especially," I added, "as I've grown taller.”
“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”
“The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.”

Source : Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.190, Transaction Publishers
“I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“And if you think you're alone. Put on my music. Because I'm going to be there for you.”
“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2009). “Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
“I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.”

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