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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Re: seminar on "Preparing for Marriage": Quotations
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Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 10:26:47 EDT
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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
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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)