Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live and being open and honest and communicating but ultimately doing what pleases God and not in a selfish manner.
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves the less they talk to other women the more they try to please their husbands the happier the marriage is going to be.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you be accepted and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Love seeketh not itself to please nor for itself hath any care but for another gives its ease and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based as associations for utility or pleasure are on a fair exchange.
Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves hills and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
She never envisioned a legal career for me but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say please let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo.