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"When you cherish what you have you don't miss what you don't as much." - The Lady Marsha
"Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar." - The Lady Marguerite Blessington
"A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart by his head." - The Lady Marguerite Blessington
"It is not the utterance of the word love that is meaningful or important, it is the loving - that ongoing demonstration of passionate desire that connects one person to another." - The Lady Marsha
"Truly, to tell lies is not honorable. But when the truth entails tremendous ruin to speak dishonorably is pardonable." - Sophocles
"When you mention the word relationship most people automatically think of sex, however, without the friendship, companionship and affection the sex won't last long. It will become nothing more than a form of physical exercise that coaxes the body into doing what comes naturally and over a period of time the feeling of fulfillment will give way to a feeling of emotional emptiness." - The Lady Marsha
"It is often the obsessive connectedness of being married that makes enemies of former friends and lovers." - The Lady Marsha
"It is an honor to be loved; to be held in that highly esteemed place within the heart of another. However, it should never be construed as an obligation or a duty to return it if you cannot." - The Lady Marsha
"The most hurtful words a lover can hear are: I can't do that. I won't even try to do that. I don't do that. Maybe later. Can I have a raincheck? I still have a headache. Is that all you ever think about?" - The Lady Marsha
"Emotionally and/or physically absent wives are the reasons mistresses will always exist." - The Lady Marsha
"Mediocrity is the companion to complacency." - The Lady Marsha
"Good sex is like good Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand." - Mae West
"Marriages are contracts we script for ourselves. Inclusive or exclusive they are written in emotional ink and often without an escape clause." - The Lady Marsha
"Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold on too tightly, too possessively and the relationship slips away and is lost." - Kaleel Jamison
"Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones; as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires." - Francoise de la Rouchefoucauld
"The path to intimacy begins with passion." - The Lady Marsha
"He who is without passion is without fulfillment. It sustains desire and sates the soul." - The Lady Marsha
"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents, husband or wife, they belong to each other in the name of nature, and are lovers by divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws." - Roche Nicholas DeChanfant
"It's better to be sincerely liked than falsely loved." - The Lady Marsha
"Emotional walls, like all others are built one brick at a time but the difference is that the mortar is composed of generous measures of pain and disappointment." - The Lady Marsha
"Denial is the mechanism that allows reasonable people to reject what they know to be the truth." - The Lady Marsha
"Oh the comfort, the inexplicable comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." - Dina Craik, A Life For A Life
"Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve." - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Nab
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"Love means different things to different people and the displays are as varied as the stars in the heavens." - The Lady Marsha
"Affection is best served from the bowl of sincerity." - The Lady Marsha
"Relationship agendas are materialism at its all time worse. Things said, promises made, then recanted and ignored once the goals have been met. It is the cruelest form of emotional manipulation and leaves the unsuspecting partner bitter and jaded." - The Lady Marsha
"Real life is not a play where you follow a script. It is a continuum of emotional involvements on many levels; some fulfilling and others disappointing." - The Lady Marsha
"Feeling sorry for yourself is like an ongoing pity party with a host and no guests." - The Lady Marsha
"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with someone else." - Mae West
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Dorothy Nevill
"When you love without expectation and you give freely and generously from your heart, everything you get back is a bonus." - The Lady Marsha
"T'was the never-ending slight, and the times, oh the times, that drove the sane and reasonable man to the arms of his mistress where his heart dwelled in the warmth and passion of her..." - The Lady Marsha, The 2005 Days of Camelot
"Men are all alike, except for the one you've met who is different." - Mae West
"The best beginning to any relationship is open and honest communication." - The Lady Marsha
"If we feel like prisoners in our own relationships it is because we gave our jailers the key." - The Lady Marsha
"T'is not by duty bound that I offer myself to thee, but rather for the exquisite pleasure and supreme joy that we bring to each other." - The Lady Marsha
"An issue is an unresolved problem that continues to fester." - The Lady Marsha
"An insincere committment is nothing more than an elaborate head game where 'faking it' takes on new meaning." - The Lady Marsha
"The real collateral damage of a divorce is not the division of assets or the dissolution of the family unit, but rather the chaos and pain in a disappointed heart." - The Lady Marsha
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish the source." - Anais Nin
"Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open." - John Barrymore
"Love is often overrated. It waxes and wanes and is often inconsistent and insincere. Give me a steady diet of lust instead and I will be happy." - The Lady Marsha
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own." - Robert Heinlein
"When one door of happiness closes, another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has ben opened for us." - Helen Keller
"The main ingredient in forever is a generous measure of one day at a time." - The Lady Marsha
"If you have not acquired the ability to walk on water, be vigilant about what bridges you burn." - The Lady Marsha
"The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string." - Lucy M. Montgomery
"Love talked about can easily be turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible." - W. Stanley Mooneyham
"The most rewarding relationship is the one that is breath for a lifeless heart, strength for a weary soul and the wings to lift a dormant spirit." - The Lady Marsha
"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect; for jealous people, like dope fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only distrust and loathing." - Emma Goldman
"If you give up on the dream to placate others, you not only lose the dream, you lose yourself as well." - The Lady Marsha
"Happily ever after is what you do today to make tomorrow better." - The Lady Marsha
"Complacency can attack a relationship like an insidious virus and destroy it quickly." - The Lady Marsha
"A kiss is never just a kiss when shared between lovers. It is the invitation to the dance of passion." - The Lady Marsha
"The best cure for unhappiness is to eliminate the source." - The Lady Marsha
"Control is the general on an emotional battlefield. It is demoralizing, dispiriting and it holds prisoner the heart of one who cared." - The Lady Marsha
"There is no faith so great as the faith we have in ourselves." - The Lady Marsha
"Love sought is good, but unsought is better." - William Shakespeare
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give which is everything." - Katharine Hepburn
"Being unhappy in a relationship is like needing an operation and procrastinating while you search for alternative therapies. Sometimes the surgery is unavoidable." - The Lady Marsha
"Fear not the loss of youth for it is a consequence of time. Fear instead the loss of passion for it is what sustains a weary heart." - The Lady Marsha
"Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life." - Ahra Behn
"When I saw you I was afraid to meet you. When I met you I was afraid to kiss you. When I kissed you I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you I am afraid to lose you." - Anonymous
"Kissing is like drinking salt water. You drink and your thirst increases." - Chinese proverb
"At first kiss, I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake. Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense." - Herman Hesse
"If passion is the master, then I am its willing slave." - The Lady Marsha
"Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace. It's inflation proof, and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It is non-taxable, non-polluting, and is of course fully refundable." - Author unknown
"If hindsight were foresight we would all be happy in our relationships." - The Lady Marsha
"T'is the simplest of gestures that are the greatest seducers." - The Lady Marsha, The 2005 Days of Camelot
"No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked than they loved than they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but sought the remedy." - William Shakespeare
"There is a time for departure even when there is no place to go." - Tennessee Williams
"The more you love the more you can love, and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love." - Robert Heinlein
"He gave until he had no more to give and yet it was never enough. The layers of disappointment became a weight his heart and spirit could no longer bear." - The Lady Marsha, The 2005 Days of Camelot
"Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves." - Author unknown
"Cheating is the act of depriving someone of something of value. If one partner devalues the relationship by withdrawing emotionally and/or physically, it is impossible to 'cheat'." - The Lady Marsha
"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have." - Author unknown
"If something seems beyond our reach, it isn't because our arms are too short, but rather because our sights are too narrow." - The Lady Marsha
"Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you out your arms around me and I put my arms around you." - Jacques Prevert
"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan, but to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships." - Harriet Lerner
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