"However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage."

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Source : Commentary on Genesis XXIV, 67. "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew text, English translation and commentary". Book edited by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 87, 1960.

Samson Raphael Hirsch

#Important Quotes

“The Doctor's Motto: Have patients.”
“No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.”

Source : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 04, 2016
“I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.”
“One lesson I got from Gandhi, 'Be the change you want to see,' haunts me. I just feel like I can't keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil industry with my very own dollars and actions by buying their products, helping to pay their mortgage - plastic is from oil... polyester, shower curtains.”
“What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.”
“There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.' I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.”
“There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain wins over you, according as to whether you can, or cannot, call up that extra ounce of endurance that helps you to break through the circle of yourself and do the hitherto impossible. That extra ounce carries you through 'le dernier quart d' heure.' Psychologist have a name for it, I believe. Christians call it the Grace of God.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1942). “The Castle on the Hill”
“As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.”

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