"Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change."

-- Richard G. Scott

#Selfish Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.”

Source : Matsuo Basho, “The Old Pond”
“To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei”
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.”
“America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.”
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications
“Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.”
“We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.”
“All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.”

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