Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: seminar on "Preparing for Marriage": Quotations Message-ID: <2183@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 10:26:47 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2183 Posted: Tue Aug 6 10:26:47 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 06:44:32 EDT References: <2176@pucc-h> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 60 WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT LOVE, SEX, AND MARRIAGE.... Chuck Gallagher: "Even though we might hope the glow would last, we don't expect it to. When the focus begins to shift from each other to the activities of everyday life, the couple in love resign themselves to being ordinary people." Sheldon Van Auken: "The killer of love is creeping separateness." Sam Levenson: "Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle." Henry David Thoreau: "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." Hebrews 12:1: "Let us also lay aside every encumbrance, and the sin which so entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus...." Wallace Denton: "The whole concept of love is so distorted and perverted in our society that it is difficult for people to get a clear sense of the proper basis for a marital relationship. Our understanding of love is that it is some kind of intoxicated frame of mind or a visitation from outer space which overwhelms us and leaves a person in an eternal state of being 'high'. As a family counselor, I often see people who assume that since they are no longer 'high', they are no longer in love. I usually tell my students here at Purdue that love is a very poor basis on which to get married, and that if all they have going for them is that they are in love, then they need to terminate the relationship! I think it takes a lot more than love on which to build a marriage ... among these are loyalty, commitment, money, etc." Woody Allen: "Of the fifty-six possible positions for sex, only eight can be achieved without laughing." Rollo May: "We define love as a delight in the presence of the other person and an affirming of his value and development as much as one's own." Paul Tournier: "Marriage is not a state, but a movement - a boundless adventure." from "The Luck of Ginger Coffee": "Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is -- it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over." -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!aeq The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16) The prayer of a not-so-righteous man availeth sometimes.... (Rich McDaniel)