For everyone, whatever his state--single, married…

While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says "no" from the very outset to what…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

— Jo Coudert

As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues…the affirmation…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

“And what’s the difference between us, that you’ll brush his sins aside and not my own?” Maati smiled. “You aren’t him,” he said. “And…

— Daniel Abraham

“Freckles, focus on me,” Torin said. I did and the love in his eyes pulled me into that place where nothing else mattered but…

— Ednah Walters

“All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young woman and asks her to…

— Fulton J. Sheen

When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.

— Josemaria Escriva

“I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy…

— Linda Gillard

“Are you a relative of her late husband?” the woman asked. His eyes widened. “I beg your pardon?” “It must be so hard for…

— Diana Palmer

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

— James Martineau

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.

— Victoria Wood

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of…

— Judy Biggert

“Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.”

— Jean M. Grant

Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find…

— Harville Hendrix