Quotes from "The Surrendered Wife" - Part I

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence on becomes steadily the person one desires to be. - Anna Louise Strong

Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. - Swami Vivekananda

Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. - Silius Italicus

One's mind, one stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. - Mum

Some people find fault as if it were buried a treasure. - Francis O'Walsh

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. - Sidney Poitier

Men are born to succeed, not fail. - Henry David Thoreau

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb man. - Erica Jong

When a man does not feel loved just the way he is, he will either consciously or unconsciously repeat the beaviour that is not being accepted. He feels an inner compulsion to repeat the behaviour until he feels loved and accepted. - John Gray

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown, and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the hear that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. - Erica Jong

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. - Lisa Moriyama

Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want. - Abraham L. Feinberg

We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. - Annie Dillard

The only thing worse than a man that you can't control is a man that you can. - Margo Kaufman

Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying it. - Anonymous

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I am silent. - Publilius Syrus