People are often unreasonable and self-centred, forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives, be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you, be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous, be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow, do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough, give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway....
Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for: Companionship, intimacy, friendship, etc. The truth is that marriage at the start is an empty box: You must put something in before you can take anything out. There is no love in marriage: Love is in people, and people put love in marriage. There is no romance in marriage: You have to infuse it into your marriage. A couple must learn the art and form the habit of giving, loving, serving, praising: Keeping the box full. If you take out more than you put in, the box will be empty.....
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and, when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two…..
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