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Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Human Relations Quotes

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially, but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Human Relations Quotes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Loneliness Quotes

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter's day.

- Elizabeth Bowen | The Seasons Quotes

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Wealth Quotes

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Forgiveness Quotes

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Other Side Quotes

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Self-Knowledge Quotes

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

- Elizabeth Bowen | One Day Quotes

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Motivation Quotes

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Realistic Expectations Quotes

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Realistic Expectations Quotes

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?

- Elizabeth Bowen | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Getting Going Quotes

When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

- Elizabeth Bowen | Companionship Quotes