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- All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
- Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
- Jane E. Brody
- To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
- Fritz Kunkel
- The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
- Arnold Bennett
- Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
- Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
- Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
- Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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