"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

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"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours."

Stephen King, American Author

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"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."

George Eliot, British Author

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"I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"A healthy marriage acts as the vessel of wellbeing and stability for both partners as well as the children."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Marriage, Freedom, Power, Rights

"If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

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"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."

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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

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"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."

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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."

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"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

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"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."

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