Long marriage Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun Download Open image ““Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23]”” — Carolyn Heilbrun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long marriage Marriage Solitude
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Marriage is so much about working on our character, being the right person, and changing as we grow and mature together.” — Susan G. Mathis Copy Share Image
“Shouldn’t there be more to a marriage? A clarity of purpose? A unity of vision? Team spirit? Common goals? A mutual love of things… — Ranjani Rao Copy Share Image
“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
“Marriage is about two people coming together to share the load, not make one partner feel as if he or she is carrying it… — H.H. Fowler Copy Share Image
“I am used to solitude and it is used to me. We understand each other, me and solitude. I don’t get annoyed when it… — Debbie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“. . . the less androgynous the person, the likelier he or she was to be incapable of action if the appropriate action was… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“But will anyone again look at that tree, read that poem, love a dog in quite my way? I am a particular and, despite… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning I might have it every day, but… — Superman Copy Share Image
“In some ways, a long marriage is a bit like embarking on a journey. There’s a point at which you may might realise the… — K.L. Slater Copy Share Image
“This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location. — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember,… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known. — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.” — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards. — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
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